Word: bell-bottoms
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...most of four days last week, Mondale holed up in his Washington, D.C., home, diligently preparing. In white sneakers and an old pair of bell-bottom blue jeans, he slumped in an armchair, studying a black briefing book of some 25 likely questions. Then he moved into his dining room, temporarily transformed into a television studio, to engage in mock debates. The part of Reagan was usually played by Columbia University President Michael Severn, a former law professor of Mondale's at the University of Minnesota. Severn affected Reagan's affable style, even his phrasing and sentence patterns...
...vintage clothing buffs, Cambridge is a treasure trove, with 10 used clothing stores located around the city. While some specialize in limited styles from Edwardian dresses to bell-bottom jeans, all of the shops have one thing in common--low prices...
Charles A. Reich's The Greening of America, with its portentous celebration of teen-age counterculture and its meditations on the existential significance of bell-bottom jeans, was a tour de force of softheadedness. Yet it was also a spectacular critical and commercial success when it appeared in 1970, largely because of where it appeared. But other instant bestsellers born in the stately columns of The New Yorker have survived as masterpieces of modern journalism, such as Rachel Carson's 1962 Silent Spring, a catalyst for the environmental movement, and John Hersey's Hiroshima. While Schell...
...pass the East Wind Movie Theater and head down Goldfish Alley. Before it was shuttered in the late 1970s, the café attracted some of Peking's most stylish youth, like New Nation Li, "attired in silken shirt and a well-tailored, gray Western suit with tight-fitting bell-bottom pants and pointed black shoes." Or Benefit-the-People Wang, by day a soldier in the People's Liberation Army, by night an exponent of the funky layered look. "From the chin up he looks like a gangster. From his neck to his knees he seems like...
...polls of 1979 and 1980 ask different questions, which themselves reflect the concerns of the moment. Last year one question asked what the students thought of bell-bottom trousers; 69% said they were not a matter for meddling by others. This year the pollsters acquiesced by not meddling. One question this year asked students to choose the country that China should most emulate economically. Japan led with 28%, followed closely by Yugoslavia with 26%, then, some distance behind, came the U.S. with 11% and the Soviet Union with...