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...consternation. "If we'd known there would be so much trouble, we'd have changed our name to the Gotham Globe, or the Daily Bugle. Then we'd only have to worry about bats and spiders knocking at our office, and not the Man of Steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: No Joke, Superman! | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

...prison's 1971 riots, shrugs Rose, and "he flipped his brains. That's why I divorced him." His father beat Baby Love up often with his fists, says Rose, and once he did so with an extension cord. When Baby Love retaliated with a piece of heavy steel pipe, she recalls, his father took him to the police and demanded, futilely, that he be locked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brooklyn: A Wolf in $45 Sneakers | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...economic growth. "I did not promise a quick answer," she told Parliament during the Liverpool riots. She is fighting to hold average-wage increases to 4% for the country's 7 million public sector employees (civil servants, the military, and workers in state-owned enterprises like British Steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: Unemployment Plague | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...stop at Gas-N-Jeans, a new combination service station and fashion emporium. The gas pumps out front are standard enough, but inside the red-and green-painted garage, a carpet covers the grease stains. While the walls are still lined with tires, fan belts and hub caps, the steel hoists once used to lift cars now support jeans, sweaters, shirts and skirts bearing 20 different designer labels, including Bill Blass, Calvin Klein and Sasson. The gas is discount: $1.26 per gal. So are the threads: $29.99 for a pair of Diane Von Furstenberg jeans, compared with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treads and Threads | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...protect the driver from any interference. Yet oncoming cars on cross streets are difficult, if not impossible, to see, and the clear track ahead dulls a driver's awareness that a child chasing a ball may dart out at any moment from the barriers of pain ted steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Trying to Tame the Automobile | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

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