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...with fabric flowers sprouting from the shoulders. Sure, some of this is stuff you wear on a dare. But be warned: high spirits can be contagious, even at these prices (around $850 for a slinky silk Sybilla with a woven metallic shawl; $1,000 for a suede, fringed Bikkembergs jacket). Moreover, it may still be something of a challenge for fashion fans in the U.S. to find things by Sybilla or Bikkembergs. The places to look at the moment are at stores like Torie Steele in Los Angeles, Barney's in New York City or Alan Bilzerian in Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Look on the Wild Side | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...suspects was described as 5'10" with "salt and pepper" colored hair, wearing a blue plaid wool jacket, a black hat and thickrimmed glasses. The other suspect was 5'6" and wearing dark clothing. Both were wearing blue jeans, ski masks and gloves, police reports said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Armed Men Rob Hospital Pharmacy | 1/13/1989 | See Source »

...John Updike. The scarlet letter on the dust jacket stands for Sarah Worth (nee Price), a wayward Massachusetts wife who runs off to an Indian guru's ashram in Arizona. Her messages home are consistently, if unconsciously, hilarious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best of '88: Books | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...This observation on oblivion was prompted by something as mundane as a pair of gloves, which had been proffered tentatively by a short man wearing a cap and an aging leather jacket, with a faded green cotton bag slung over his shoulder like an Irish peddler. For the past 24 years, between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Michael Greenberg, 60, has been taking his bag of gloves to Manhattan's Bowery, long the haunt of the down-and-outs and the lost- weekenders, and wandering the gritty neighborhood looking for "the old, the reticent and the shy." When he finds one, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gloves for The Needy: One Heart Warms Many Chilly Fingers | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...group does nothing to hide its official name -- the Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Vocal Choir -- but the copy on the label and jacket doesn't exactly brag about it either. Le Mystere is so much more mellifluous and -- no getting around it -- mysterious. Just like the music itself, in fact. The wonder of both Le Mystere excursions is provided by the range of the voices and the surprise of the melodies. The music sounds African, Middle European and otherworldly, like a collision around a sharp mountain turn between Peter Gabriel's score for The Last Temptation of Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Voices From Another Time | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

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