Word: versions
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...takes many cues from bygone decades. A $565 hobo bag, which had not been manufactured since 1975, has been revived and is now one of the two top Gucci offerings in U.S. stores. The other is a roomy, bamboo-handle leather bag, created in 1957. The updated version, which is enlarged and comes with a leather shoulder strap, is offered in calfskin leather ($895) and crocodile...
...organizations (including TIME) sued NASA under the Freedom of Information Act to disclose certain aspects of its investigation into the accident. Most eventually withdrew their actions, but the New York Times has continued to petition for tapes to back up a NASA transcript of cabin conversation. In the official version, the final comment is pilot Michael Smith's "uh-oh," indicating he might have been aware of impending danger. A federal appeals court agreed with NASA that releasing the voice material would constitute an invasion of privacy. George Freeman, a Times lawyer, says the paper has not decided...
...Pennsylvania, which will be host of the bicentennial celebration of the charter's ratification in Philadelphia next year. "We have no idea what happened to our copy," says the state's head archivist, Harry Whipkey. Next-door Delaware can't provide a copy either; like Maryland, Delaware returned its version to the Federal Government after the Bill of Rights' ratification. So Philadelphia officials are now contemplating crossing the Delaware to see if they can borrow New Jersey's original for the festivities...
...twist: network news, by some measures, is booming. Because news shows are cheaper to produce than entertainment fare, they are in demand at the networks. Four hours of news programming is now seen weekly in prime time. NBC will add another hour in January -- a half-hour version of Real Life with Jane Pauley and the investigative series Expose -- as well as an afternoon show hosted by Faith Daniels. CBS's America Tonight has joined the late-night schedule (though it will leave the air, at least temporarily, in late January), and ABC has talked about doing all-night news...
...basics of a culture and then fill in the reader's knowledge with tantalizing facts. His footnotes (three panels at the bottom of the page set off with a foot drawing an asterix), which he uses to give background or explain historical controversies (such as the Egyptian version of the Trojan war), are especially interesting...