Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps this letter should be addressed directly to Professor Blumenthal. But if the word is out on my generation, I would at least like to get my own in edgewise before the word, at least among Harvard students, becomes Professor Blumenthal's "Base Compromise...
...more diversity of styles, the better. Still, when the youngsters get confused or the designers founder, the style that always seems to endure and prosper is Amekaji, as the kids call American casual. Says Tomohiro Ando, sales manager of Octopus Army: "American design remains the base. Amekaji is always such a comfortable and functional look." The labels of Octopus Army shirts thoughtfully proclaim those virtues in the fractured English beloved by Japanese teens: "Best in the field of Spangled Stars, Americanized as hell as well as originality." Exactly how that translates is not important; it's the feeling and verve...
Before the last set of results were announced,many observers were predicting the defeat ofincumbent Thomas W. Danehy, an 11-term councillorwho enjoyed immense popularity in the 1970s.Danehy has slipped steadily in recent years andthis year had to fight off tough challenges fromCyr and Myers in his home base of North Cambridge...
...slate's formation also splits the Independents into at least two other groups: old-line Independents like Councillors Walter J. Sullivan and Thomas W. Danehy, who base their support on neighborhoods, and protenant candidates like Timothy J. Toomey, Jr., who support rent control and oppose...
...fresh view. All the familiar sins and successes are rehearsed, along with the inner torment that destroyed Nixon's judgment. But he also begins to appear as much more a product of his time and place than many care to admit. If he frequently exploited the country's most base instincts, he also reflected legitimate resentments. The silent majority he mobilized survived him, eventually evolving into the right-wing populist movement that anointed Ronald Reagan...