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...Between 20,000 and 50,000 Vietnamese flock each weekend to 800 shops and restaurants, buying herbal medicine and dining out on snail-tomato-rice-noodle soup. In the mornings people may attend Buddhist ceremonies in makeshift temples; in the evenings they can applaud Elvis Phuong, who, complete with skintight pants and sneer, does Presley Vietnamese-style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strangers In Paradise | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...excess of smell. Bush appears with his two oldest grandchildren, walks toward a monster mound of corn and, as photographers record the event, he acts like a man waiting for a train on a platform. Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle and Peggy Sue appear, dressed in tall spike heels, skintight pedal pushers and Bush T shirts. On the other side of the factory, for the thousandth time that day, the sisters introduce Bush by singing Coal Miner's Daughter, Amazing Grace, The Man from Galilee, and I Saw the Light. The crowds all day, surprised to find someone really famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Myth and Memory | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

Today, Triple Five, with $4.3 billion in assets, ranks as one of Canada's largest firms. In addition to their megamall in Edmonton, the Ghermezians operate six hotels in the area and a popular local nightclub called Goose Loonie's that features rock bands and dancers in skintight Lycra outfits. The family empire also includes several high-rise apartment buildings in Edmonton and housing developments in the city's sprawling suburbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to the Pleasure Dome | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...decade and the show progress, girl groups give way to woman singers, coy jingles to wham- bam sexuality. Says Pattie Darcy, 30, a blond soul stirrer whose repertoire embraces Gore and Franklin: "It shows women letting their hair down, washing the Aqua Net out, giving up their skintight skirts and high heels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return of the Dream Girls | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...theme was "Americana" or something like that and the girls all dressed in skintight silver shake-your-stuff suits for a toe-tapping salute to George M. Cohan and for the evening gown competition each semi-finalist was escorted in a knockout dress beneath an archway of uplifted Naval Academy sabers and the cadets lucky enough to accompany the lovely ladies wore Good Humor Man ice-cream suits and Remedial Math dropjaw smiles like a bunch of meatheaded Varsity fullbacks strutting arm-in-arm with prospective Homecoming Queens and for the swimsuit competition the camera played fly-on-the-wall...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: One Fine Night in Newton | 5/23/1986 | See Source »

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