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...late '70s and early '80s. In one segment John Waite performs his only hit single, Missing You, wearing a gauze scarf and looking like David Duchovny digitally reinserted into a Wham! video. If that isn't diverting enough, there are always plenty of women dancing in handkerchief skirts while Dick Clark plays his role of well-preserved geezer-voyeur to a tee. Chatting up a perky audience member with feathered hair, he marvels, "Now how do you do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: ULTRASUEDE IS FUNNY | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...great day for it," said Ficara, pulling a small red handkerchief out of thin...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: Crowds Gather for Regatta | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

...knows, anything goes. And now what's going is a new wrinkle in hose credited by some fashion experts to Ralph Lauren. In magazine ads, Lauren's young line, called Ralph, features a model straddling a chair. She wears a skirt about the length of a large handkerchief, and her stockings, such as they are, reach only to her thighs. Thus is born a fad. The stockings are called thigh-highs and a lot of women are making a run on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: Getting a Leg Up | 9/26/1994 | See Source »

...frustrating. We'd get a white politician that would come in and promise everything, and then when they won, they didn't know you." He is receiving friends at his business. His tone is soft, almost apologetic, but his small handlebar mustache and his pink tie and matching handkerchief suggest a healthy self-image. Some wonder whether perhaps he is too moderate. His response may relieve those who resent his judicially mandated rise, not to mention its newfangled engineering. "I'm only one person on the board," he says. "I've got to work within the system. Sure, I could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Person, Seven Votes | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

...respite from a family feud of royal proportions. Just minutes earlier, Pakistani national police had prevented her mother from making the same gesture -- by firing tear gas and bullets at the 63-year-old widow and her supporters who had gathered at the family mansion nearby. Raising a white handkerchief in a sign of peace, Nusrat Bhutto asked police to allow her supporters to tend to the wounded. Angrily, she compared her daughter to General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, the dictator who had sent her husband to the very grave she was now barred from visiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mommie Dearest | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

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