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...Crichton stocks her closet regularly with shirts for less than a dollar, wool tweed blazers for less than $2, or winter coats for $4 each...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cheap Chic | 11/7/1980 | See Source »

...cost of $325,000, Wagner made the trip strapped between the wings of a small, twin-engine plane, where he endured temperatures as low as 22° below zero. "I felt as though I was wearing a bathing suit," he said afterward. He was, in fact, clad in wool underwear, a frogman's suit, a ski suit, a leather suit, several wool sweaters and a motorcycle helmet. The frigid feat ended in a small New Jersey airfield, after a ritual circling of the Statue of Liberty and a near collision with the Goodyear blimp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 20, 1980 | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

...looking at a swarm of termites on a windowsill. A domestic portrait gives way to an extreme closeup of a rusty knife cutting through bread--the sound suddenly amplified and grating. Idyllic farm panoramas are interrupted with scenes of chicken roosters being slaughtered, huge shears go through sheep's wool, the camera slowly absents itself from a sermon and creeps in on a bloody axe, a strange glance, nervous fingers drumming violently...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: A Gradual Terror | 10/16/1980 | See Source »

...Need to Know About the IRS, Strassels with Wool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

...Need to Know About the IRS, Strassels with Wool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

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