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...sheepskin coats heavy enough to bench press. Pristine white sneakers-"kicks" to you, Jim-laced up with byzantine complexity; luxury-label cords and knife-creased jeans; burnished belt buckles that might be police state special issue. Could be the population of the local high school, right? Standard teen-age uniform, right? You're whacked. Look closer, and start uptown. Def thrives at that address...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Chilling Out on Rap Flash | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

...ghetto blaster carried on a shoulder broadcasting 130 beats a minute all over a Bronx street, this subculture, nicknamed hip hop, is about assertiveness, display, pride, status and competition, particularly among males. Clothes are not only a part of this offhand cultural statement; they are a kind of uniform for cultural challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Chilling Out on Rap Flash | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

...final scene, when vengeance is pounding recklessly towards fulfillment, the Talking Heads' "Psycho-Killer" erupts out of nowhere as servants sprinkle the grappling bodies with red glitter. The ploy only adds a dash of Saturday Night Fever to an already macabre event. And the updating is not uniform throughout. Sudden bursts of gunshots in the final scenes startle an audience grown used to the clash of swords. In duelling scenes, digital watches glint on the wrists of saber-holding swashbucklers...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: Ancient History | 3/16/1983 | See Source »

...nation. The chance to witness what may be the first steps in Harvard's run to that title should create a rush to buy tickets rivaled only by the evacuation at Dunkirk. We urge Athletic Director John P. Reardon '60 to be prepared and to respond with a uniform policy for ticket distribution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two For The Show | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

Basketball is a most intimate game. Observing a baseball or football player from a distance, the first impression of color might be the color of his uniform. But basketball players are running around in their underwear, and the spectators are close enough to see the players' beards dripping sweat. Since a giant black center is no novelty, something about Ewing must be particularly affecting. "He looks like a big, bad, mean guy," says John Thompson, his coach. "Actually he's a big, quiet, sensitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Banner Year for Meanness | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

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