Word: breed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This week, as shoppers descend upon furriers for the annual winter sales, those maxims appear all but extinct. A typical buyer is more likely to be female than male, and more likely to be under 30 than 50; also, she may earn less than the salesperson. The new breed of shoppers operates on the principle that life is short, winters are cold, and it is better to spoil yourself than rely on a man to do it for you. "I always wanted a fur, and I get what I want," says Karen Fallica, 24, an accountant from Brooklyn who earns...
...black is a better athlete to begin with because he's been bred to be that way . . . because of his high thighs and big thighs that goes up into his back." He went on: "This goes back all the way to the Civil War, when . . . the slave owner would breed his big black to his big woman so that he could have a big black kid." In sports, the Greek declared, "there isn't much left for the white guys anymore...
...often, as Critic Mikal Gilmore points out, graphic novels still tend to be "overblown bad comics, using fancy paper to do bad stories." But a work like Watchmen -- by common assent the best of breed -- is a superlative feat of imagination, combining sci-fi, political satire, knowing evocations of comics past and bold reworkings of current graphic formats into a dysutopian mystery story. It is as engagingly knotty and self-referential as The Name of the Rose, but instead of monks doubting their faith, here are superheroes weighed down by their creed, caught in a world they never made...
...Hart is more than merely political and situational; it is rooted in anger at an iconoclast who scorns convention. Mocking the pretensions and smugness of the system is not a new pose for Hart: he did it as George McGovern's campaign manager in 1972 and as a new breed of maverick candidate in 1984. As in his personal life, he tries to live above the accepted rules. Now he has embarked on the most daring odyssey of a public career built entirely on risk, and the political power structure looks on in % horror and asks...
...take their children to the movie theater for a little animated fun. This year Walt Disney has reissued its classic Cinderella, and Filmation is coming out with a sequel to Carlo Collodi's classic tale called Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night. Both represent an increasingly rare breed: animated movies made...