Word: calvinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been the worst of winters. Temperatures down to -14 0 F. Shards of ice glittering on the Gothic towers of John Calvin's church, the Cathedral of St. Peter. The glacial wind known as the bise whipping the beautiful lake into whitecaps all along the quais that fan out from the Mont Blanc Bridge. Just last month, two feet of snow suddenly blocked all avenues to the Palais des Nations, the U.N.'s European headquarters, and forced the postponement of an international conference on human rights. Incroyable. Nobody could remember such a thing ever happening before. Swiss army recruits...
...after centuries of independence. Its patriotic holiday, known as the Escalade, commemorates the December night in 1602 when an old woman roused and saved the sleeping city by throwing a pot of soup at the invading troops of the Duke of Savoy. Geneva sheltered both the ascetic Calvin and the libertine Voltaire. Lenin conspired here, and so did the anarchists Bakunin and Kropotkin...
...investigated the murders on his own and doubts that Williams is the killer; and Camille Bell (Gloria Foster), an outspoken mother of one of the slain children. Both are pictured as righteous crusaders for justice; both were paid consultants on the movie. Williams, played with riveting accuracy by Calvin Levels, is a more ambivalent figure. But the movie's sympathies are hard to miss: when Williams first emerges from his automobile for questioning, he stands in front of a church, his head framed symbolically by a trio of crosses...
...crises. Engel consults various social scientists whom only the victim of a bad Social Studies seminar would ever have read. The androgyny rating is a reflection of the quality of our society, their spiel goes, and an admirable result of the breakdown of sexual barriers. Some blithe comments on Calvin Klein underwear, David Bowie, Boy George, and Harvey Fierstein are marshalled to support his belief that the sexes are converging, but Engel blows it in a big was when he use Prunce as an example of androgyny: Prince is not interested in becoming a woman...
...wristwatches have been often on view in period movies like Chinatown and Chariots of Fire. They also show up with some regularity in fashion layouts of Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. The oldtimers first started to become salable, however, with the late '70s interest in retro clothes and in reaction to the flood of maddeningly accurate quartz and digital models available at the local pharmacy. "You can get a wafer-thin watch that keeps perfect time for $20 at a dime store," scoffs Sig Shonholtz, who runs the Second Time Around Watch Co. in Los Angeles. "So what...