Word: 80s
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...Before I left Beirut last week I sat down with a member of Hizballah's politburo. He didn't look anything like the old Hizballah I knew from the '80s. For a start he asked to meet in the posh Vendome Hotel, in the rooftop restaurant that has a commanding view over the Corniche and the Mediterranean. Clean shaven and carrying a new leather briefcase, he offered me a Cuban cigar as soon as he sat down. He had just come from a class teaching economics...
...news bulletins, is part of a new wave of violence against this urban tribe that has sprung up in Mexico in the last decade. The emo subculture probably existed in your high school before the term even bloomed, the latest movement on a continuum represented by goths in the '80s and alternative rockers in the '90s. In yearbooks, they're the kids who wear exaggerated haircuts and immerse themselves in moody music. In short: the kids jocks have been beating up for decades...
...mask," says Lacroix, who calls this shift in sensibility a new minimalism. "The new pureness of lines centered on cut rather than decoration, the laser geometry of shapes and silhouettes are all maybe signs of a graphic protection linked unconsciously to recession, just like at the end of the '80s." Like Lacroix, Ghesquière was channeling a more austere sensibility in his Balenciaga collection, which, he said, was inspired by film noir, specifically the actress Simone Signoret's hard-edged look in the 1955 movie Les Diaboliques...
...Vogue magazine, fearing she would appear too feminine. What do you think that says about women's roles in society? Emily Nielsen, Poway, Calif.Showing your femininity should help your career and not go against your career. Dressing like a man, using the suit to look powerful-that was the '80s, and that didn't help women. Helping women is [using] your brain and not the way you dress...
...There's no such thing as a bad style phase because when you adopt a certain look, you truly believe it's stylish. In hindsight, the '80s had some awkward moments, but then again, there were some real statements made.' ?Viktor Horsting, on style statements...