Word: bareli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...secondary schools, which tend to breed in major cities and rural areas, cut their pupils' chances for entry into a top college. "There is no way," says Jewett, "that we can make up for twelve missed years of education." The problem is intensified by the fact that a bare 1.4% of university faculty -- prime role models -- are black. This too is typical of many other universities. But Harvard faced the special difficulty this year that nearly half of the qualified black applicants offered admission chose not to attend, in part because of a perceived racial coolness in the Boston area...
...aura of Harvard's architecture department silenced many doubters of these bare and square designs. The GSD was the ideal platform for the polemically inclined Gropius to promote the ideals of the Bauhaus. As it has done in many other fields, Harvard provided the official stamp of approval that helped make a revolutionary doctrine palatable to conservative American tastes...
...controversy over 350 years of Harvard past. The University Archives has refused to release photographs of student protests. And, to provide the perfect backdrop for alumni snapshots this week, Harvard has scrubbed its walls, trimmed its lawns, and even planted several new, fully grown trees to fill in bare spots in the Yard...
...individual theme: status vs. sex. Klein's dominance of the sexual sell began with his blue-jeans ads in 1980, which featured a pubescent Brooke Shields uttering, "You know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing!" His current magazine ad for Obsession depicts a young man nuzzling a bare-breasted female. By contrast, Lauren's most ambitious effort was a magisterial 18-page section in the New York Times Magazine earlier this year that portrayed a large, wealthy and blue-blooded American clan enjoying a life of racquets, books and, yes, polo. The pictorial saga reached out to upwardly...
...create an art magazine that would appeal not just to art insiders but to the general public as well. With its glossy new look, Art & Antiques has seen its circulation jump from 23,000 to 98,000. Still, seat-of-the-pants remains the typical mode of operation. The bare-bones staff of 27 routinely works a seven-day week, and sometimes even dresses up in period costume to pose for photo layouts...