Word: vargas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Colombia, where 157 judges were victims of drug-related murders between 1982 and 1988, it is a brave justice who stands up to the cartels. But last week, in a surprising move, the country's Supreme Court voted to uphold most of President Virgilio Barco Varga's emergency measures against narcotics traffickers. Most important, the court approved the President's power to extradite criminals...
Steve Martin is just wild and crazy over a new portrait of his girlfriend and Jerk co-star Bernadette Peters. The painting, on the cover of Peters' new album Gee Whiz, was done by Illustrator Alberto Varga, 84, who stirred the fantasies of two generations of young men with his soft drawings of semi-nude seductresses for, among others, Esquire and Playboy. Varga retired from painting beauties five years ago, but when Peters, 32, approached him, he just had to give her the brush. Said he: "Yes, you are a Varga Girl." Peters, who wore a camisole...