Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Acquiring separate items that can be mixed and matched, dressed down or up, the American woman can create her own look for all hours and occasions (see box). American women will no longer accept the abrupt style changes that characterized fashion until the great midi debacle...
...oldfashioned, ripping Fleet Street row. The issue: press treatment of the abrupt resignation from the Labor Party of Lord George-Brown, 61, the hard-drinking, outspoken former British Foreign Secretary, Deputy Prime Minister and Economic Affairs Minister. A member of the House of Lords since 1970, George-Brown went on TV to announce his decision to quit the party after 40 years. The move, prompted by George-Brown's fear that press freedom would be threatened by a Labor proposal requiring all journalists to join a union, was made only after considerable personal turmoil-and some alcoholic fortification. After...
Others are less abrupt about making such geographical leaps; their urban grievances simply accumulate like a lowering smog, until one day they call the moving van. Scott Snowden, a graduate of Berkeley's law school, could have landed a job in one of San Francisco's better law firms. But Snowden found himself growing wearier and wearier of "the constant roar in the city, the intensity and impersonality of it." With his wife, he decamped to St. Helena, a tiny town in the Napa Valley wine country. He still earns less than $15,000 a year...
...Bicentennial Follies. A weak dramatic framework provides an excuse for several genuinely moving songs in this original musical by Paris K.C. Barclay, Steven Gordon Crist and Mark P. O'Donnell. If you can't keep up with the show's abrupt shifts in mood, from parody through black humor to tragedy, just sit back and listen to the voices, which are more than equal to the material. At the Quincy House Dining Room, March 12 at 8:30 p.m. and March 13 at 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. Tickets...
...gentleness of the subjects - those mellow distances which, a century and a half later, seem like the never-never land of Arcady - veils it from us. It amounted to a prediction of impressionism, 40 years ahead. It was an attempt, as Constable put it, "to arrest the more abrupt and transient appearances of the Chiaroscuro in Nature, to shew its effect in the most striking manner, to give 'to one brief moment, caught from fleeting time' a lasting and sober existence...