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Word: zebras (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...owner of Vincent on Camelback, has developed a line of "heart-smart" game entrees. Once chefs % had to scramble to find a brace of partridge or pheasant. Not anymore. Game suppliers and game farms have sprung up across the country to meet the demand for everything from antelope to zebra. D'Artagnan in Jersey City sells two kinds of venison and four different varieties of duck, as well as fresh grouse, wood pigeon and pheasant from Scotland. Five years ago, D'Artagnan was pulling in $500,000 annually; this year it will do $7 million in business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: The Game Is Up! | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...women are prancing in herds, and spots swim before the eyes. The designs the women are wearing are not the real thing, of course, but thick faux furs and diaphanous fabric in sexy, primitive patterns. And the customers cannot seem to get enough of them: they're snapping up zebra-stripe blazers, panther-print pumps, fake tiger coats, imitation ocelot boleros and giraffe pants. Says a spokesman for Paris' Dorothee Bis: "It's the theme of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: On The Prowl with Vulgar Chic | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...course, thank you, Harvard Sports Information Director Frank Cicero, for not wearing the zebra shirts, as well as Assistant SID Julie Rice and the entire Harvard Sports Information staff for their help. Ivy League Standings...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: The Lost Weekend? | 3/8/1989 | See Source »

...background. During the past 14 months, Manhattan has seen the opening of four plush pool palaces catering to upscale players. The Billiard Club, which opened in August and takes in an estimated 1,500 customers on weekends, has a downstairs Safari Room, where players shoot pool amid zebra skins, mounted sailfish and a stuffed bobcat. In Boston, Jillian's Billiard Club has a private room, furnished as an English gentleman's library, that rents for $30 an hour. "It's becoming a glamour sport," observes Ed Irwin, a banker by day and a player by night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Everyone Back into Pool! | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

...world in which things are carried along, bobbing like corks, on a gross, value-free cataract of media imagery. The waves of magazines undulate with a glutinous, twining rhythm, and their movement seems irresistible: they are going to take over the gallery first, and then the world. Only the zebra seems above it all; but then, it cannot read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gods, Chess and 28,000 Magazines | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

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