Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There, flourishing, and even expanding a little. Miyake is just about to pull off an exercise in the theoretical physics of fashion by moving ahead as he turns a little backward. He is launching a new line called Permanente, an excavation of his creative past that probably has no precedent in all of fashion. Most designers pack their old work off to some commercial attic; Miyake will turn his attic into a shop that trades evenly between past and present. Anyone who spots a vintage number on a Miyake fan and comes up with the familiar run-on question...
Around a corner, several blocks of a street seemed untouched. Nonetheless, a young man looked worriedly above him: a 20-story building was leaning forward at an alarming angle. Farther down the street, another building was tilted backward, while a third had a V-shaped bulge in its middle. No pedestrian could feel safe below the damaged structures, yet three shabbily dressed women sat nearby, sipping coffee out of plastic cups. They said they were afraid to go back into their homes since the walls might tumble around them...
...first glance, Fenghuang is still a backward village. Peasants pull two- wheeled harnessed carts along the roads, and sewage remains the primary fertilizer. Beneath that superficial impression, however, the lives of the 865 people of Fenghuang and of their neighbors in Sichuan province have been revolutionized. Where just six years ago most of the villagers were rice growers, today nearly 80% of Fenghuang's work force is no longer engaged in farming. Some peasants mix fodder, some produce soft drinks, some refine edible oil. Many of them work in a small distillery, brewing a potent rice liquor called feifeng daqu...
...World is a classic instance of information retrieval presented without bias or thesis. Unlike Paul Fussell, whose The Great War and Modern Memory (1975) brilliantly traced the outlines of World War I on contemporary art and life, Weintraub is content to play the role of time machine, flashing backward to gather the testimonies of eyewitnesses. They are unfailingly provocative...
...following inconsistency in the U.S. reasoning? To substantiate increased military spending, all they do in the U.S. is talk about the fantastic achievements of the U.S.S.R. in the field of technology. When, on the other hand, they need an excuse for prohibitive measures, they portray us as a backward country of yokels, with which to trade and to cooperate would mean undermining one's own "national security." So where is the truth? What is one to believe...