Time Magazine April 5, 1982
Vol. 118, No. 14.
Giorgio Armani on cover. 82 pages.
Index:
"Cover: Italian Designer Giorgio Armani has worked a revolution not only in the way people wear clothes and look in them, but in how they think about them as well. For high fashion, it is a whole new wrinkle. See LIVING.
World: A born-again general takes over a coup in Guatemala. El Salvador's divisions are accentuated by its election. Turmoil breaks out on the West Bank. Roy Jenkins' victory boosts Britain's Social Democrats.
Reagan's Worries: A new TIME poll shows declining faith in the President and wide resistance to many of his policies. Presidential rhetoric softens as Reagan tries to change his image as an uncaring Scrooge. See NATION.
American Scene: The Old Boys of Spring follow their team south like superannuated groupies, all for the sweet sound of ball against bat.
Cinema: A gory, sexy, solemn new version of the old horror classic Cat People displays Nastassia Kinski's pelt but not her talents.
Nation: Signs of flexibility in U.S. policy on Central America. Stalled on START. Are the Soviets using chemical weapons?
Show Business: Norman Mailer, Jerzy Kosinski and George Plimpton are going from typewriter to type casting as Hollywood author-actors.
Economy & Business: Detroit heads down a new road with the latest GM and Ford labor agreements. The U.S. savings rate continues to slide.
Books: Isaac Bashevis Singer's collected stories still enchant. Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is delicious.
Space: The space shuttle Columbia makes a record third voyage into orbit but is plagued by a succession of exasperating glitches.
Sport: In the fattest TV deal ever, N.F.L. owners get $2 billion from the networks. For their part, the players are talking strike.
Sexes: Why are there so few women in fire departments? Ralph and Wanda argue about sexism and upper-body strength.
Essay: He who lends out his books to others is kind and generous, giving and sharing, a friend of learning, and a genuine fool.
Music: Neglected for two centuries, the sparkling operas of Joseph Haydn are beginning to come back, both on records and onstage.
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