Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...favorite of the ever-favored anti-affectations are horn-or wire-rimmed glasses, a.k.a., spectacles. Just about everyone I know who wears glasses wears them because, after years of trying to find "fashion" frames to fit our faces, they have surrendered. They are happy to wear these at best non-existent and at worst ugly face braces because they are better than trying and failing to find flattering eye wear...
...Piovra, or the Octopus, as the Mob has come to be called, has entwined its tentacles around Italy, frequently choking off the government's power. Vincenzo Parisi, chief of the Italian state police, says the Mafia's clout has made it a force strong enough to form an "anti-state." Domenico Sica, the high commissioner named last summer for the specific task of fighting the Mafia, recently warned a parliamentary commission that organized crime was in "total control" of parts of Sicily, Calabria and Campania. The Mob's lucrative drug trade has been shared with its crime families in America...
...legality of Shultz's decision remained in dispute. While the State Department has sole discretion for extending visas to foreigners, the first of last week's U.N. resolutions maintains that the anti-Arafat ruling violates the 1947 Headquarters Agreement between the U.S. and the U.N. That accord states that the U.S. will not keep out anyone who has business before the world body. Among international lawyers, the consensus was that the U.S. had breached its responsibility. "It is quite clear that the U.S. decision is wrong legally," said Cyrus Vance, former Secretary of State and an international lawyer. U.S. courts...
...sent its team to the Olympics in September and the Bolshoi Ballet to an arts festival. South Korean officials give Moscow credit for using its clout in North Korea to keep the militant Communist regime there from starting a new war on the peninsula. With a mild wave of anti-Americanism sweeping South Korea these days, there is no question that the Soviets are taking advantage of a classic target of opportunity to extend their influence at the expense...
...movie about the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, was altered at network insistence to soften its charges of a U.S. Government cover-up. Midnight Caller, already the target of protests from homosexual groups over a segment on AIDS airing next week, was forced to tone down the anti-capital punishment message in another upcoming episode. The network menu may be getting spicier, but bland still seems to be the flavor of choice...