Word: 1920s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What is clear, though, is that the 1920s at Harvard were no Benneton poster. While, records kept by the University itself make little mention of student organized racist activities and University-wide racist policies, other national publications did not hide Harvard's dirty laundry in the closet...
Indeed, the luxury movement represents the industry's first significant market shift since the introduction of the minivan and the Jeep Grand Cherokee in the mid-1980s. And it suggests that the old model developed by General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan in the early 1920s, which sliced the industry into carefully graded segments and moved consumers up as their income rose, may be headed for extinction. Instead, as automakers lavish more and more attention on a narrower, wealthier band of consumer, the U.S. is moving to a more European marketing model built around sales of luxury cars to the affluent...
...Costume Institute makes the dazzling and utterly convincing visual argument that what facilitated the transition was the influence of Cubist painting and theory. From the tunics of Callot Soeurs to the cylindrical day dresses of Vionnet to the drop-waist skirts of Chanel in the 1920s, fashion's deflation followed the Cubist embrace of the plane. In other words, liberated from corsets, women everywhere owe a thank-you to Picasso and Braque...
DIED. CLAYTON ("Peg Leg") BATES, 91, one-legged tap dancer; in Fountain Inn, S.C. Bates didn't let an accident that severed his leg at the age of 12 keep him from dancing. Wearing a wooden limb outfitted with metal taps, he hoofed from the 1920s to 1989; appeared in vaudeville, film and TV; performed with musicians such as Louis Armstrong; and made more than 20 appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show...
METAL TENNIS RACQUET Rene ("Le Crocodile") Lacoste, the 1920s French tennis champ turned clothing entrepreneur, invented a steel tennis racquet in 1963. It was distributed in the U.S. by Wilson as the T-2000 and quickly revolutionized the game...