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...rest of the play, we could not suppress the images of Jack Tripper tripping over the back of a couch, Felipe the vegetable slicer shouting Spanish curses and Janet hopping around the apartment in nothing but a longish football jersey. In short, we had mentally replaced Lillian Hellman's drama with Three's Company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three's Company For You | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

...glamour. Shampooed and conditioned, it no longer had the scruffiness of the hippie look, and instead was associated with Old World hipness. "It's safely deviant," explains Michael O'Loughlin, 31, an editor of the San Francisco Examiner, who recently cut off his 6-in. ponytail and got a longish crewcut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Long and Short of It | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

Second-year French student Nick Nesbitt--with longish hair, khaki pants, a plaid shirt and wire-rim glasses--gives a similar view of the Boylston scene...

Author: By Eryn R. Brown, | Title: Graduate Student Fashions: From The Tres Tres Chic To Just Plain Old Tres Chic | 9/12/1990 | See Source »

...these is his unfashionable conviction that individualism must cease when it threatens the legitimate, shared concerns of community. This belief is not a late-blooming flower of incipient dotage. As a fledgling professor during the 1960s, Giamatti bore the plumage of the counterculture. His clothes were rumpled, his hair longish; he sported a goatee and an unassuming, downscale, fist-around-a- can-of-beer manner. Students were attracted by this charisma. They enrolled in his courses and came out of them equally entranced by their teacher, but for radically different reasons. Bart expected them actually to read their assignments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI: Egghead At the Plate | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

That's a lot of understatement. Brian Boitano and Brian Orser are linked circles in a perfect figure eight -- they mirror each other. It is not just because they have the same name, the same lean look and the same longish hairstyle. The two are both homebodies who enjoy the pampered slot of youngest in a long line of siblings. Each took up skating before his tenth birthday, and (unlike most skaters) still trains with his first and only coach. Both have captured a string of national figure-skating titles, Boitano in the U.S., | Orser in Canada. Each has reigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figure Skating: The Soaring, Spinning Battle Of the Brians | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

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