Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wearable," "more realistic apparel" is to be worn with stiletto heels, which will require experience to walk in safely? Why not return to binding women's feet? It angers me that the fashion industry is so backward regarding the health of women's feet. Do women of the '90s really want to be dressed up like little dolls that can't run? This is class...
Yesterday's women's lacrosse game against Dartmouth was worthy of a Lewis Carroll narrative. The No. 13 Crimson's 14-8 loss at Ohiri Field to No. 3 Dartmouth was as backward and out of character as any Mad Hatter's tea or croquet with the Queen of Hearts. Dartmouth 14 Harvard...
...psychic primitivism, or atavism if you prefer. His art is chiefly about two states: compulsion and regression. When you see a videotape of him smearing his face with black or green greasepaint, you aren't sure whether he's disguising himself or simulating the fecal games of a backward child. Autism is the governing metaphor of his work's "look"--the long-winded rituals of trivial movement, the ejaculatory phrases, the bouts of ungovernable rage...
...action, about one-third of blacks have made their way into the middle class. ``To an amazing degree, it has worked,'' says Roger Wilkins, a history professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and a longtime civil rights activist. ``If you stopped all affirmative action, we would slide backward...
...have saved the city. With miraculously few scars from the 36,000 tons of U.S. ordnance that fell during the 1972 Christmas bombing, economically backward Vietnam missed the boom that swept the rest of Asia during the 1980s. When the government announced an economic- reform program in 1989, Hanoi stood out as a place with relatively little industry and few cars, clean air and no traffic. Though neglected, architectural gems like the Ecole Francaise d'Extreme Orient and the former Bank of Indochina were resurrectable. ``For anyone interested in architectural questions, Hanoi is where the action is because there...