Word: calvinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...colonization of the lucrative underwear market by the designers might have come to naught, if not for the entry of industry leviathan Calvin Klein, whose energetic marketing campaign has made designer underwear for men a fait accompli. Any recent visitor to New York has seen the virtually ubiquitous advertisements plastered by Klein's operatives on the sides of bus shelters. They depict a body reminiscent of something out of Mussolini's art collection in blissful, practically naked repose. All indications point to the probability that such advertisements will soon proliferate throughout the land...
What Malamud has actually produced is an astonishment: a fable of the last man so bizarre that it defies explication. At first it seems that in the person of Calvin Cohn, the author has in mind a latter-day Noah. Adrift in a boat Cohn is the only human survivor of the "Second Flood" that follows a nuclear war between the "Djanks" and "Druzhkies." Speaking from a crack in the sky, God addresses Cohn: "That you went on living, Mr. Cohn, I regret to say, was no more than a marginal error. . . Therefore live quickly-a few deep breaths...
PRESUMED DEAD. Calvin Simmons, 32, maestro of the Oakland Symphony Orchestra; missing after a canoeing accident on Connery Pond, near Lake Placid, N.Y. Simmons conducted at England's prestigious Glyndebourne Festival and led many of the major orchestras in the U.S. He gained acclaim for his dynamism and adventurous programming. This month he was to have conducted a work of his favorite composer, Mozart's The Magic Flute, at the New York City Opera. Said Beverly Sills: "Cal had so much to offer. I just can't take...
...Calvin Coolidge shows conflicting moods and feelings; the bottom half is precise and calm, but the top half reflects an impatient, unhappy individual. Herbert Hoover demonstrates incredible motivation, but the coiled web tells us he feels trapped, and the overlapping of the designs suggests that he is a bit befuddled and confused. John Kennedy's graphic movement indicates a superior intellect. Obviously he had bad feelings toward the first, messily drawn house, which may be the White House. His feelings are moderate toward the middle house, and truly homey toward the third. Perhaps he felt some confusion about...
...Originally, man built a strong body to do work. Now women are building their bodies just to look good. Is that enough? Does beauty stop at the skin line? For this kind of woman, it does. She will be sitting alone, in an empty room, with her perfect body." Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker journalist and humorist, wonders whether this new ideal woman is only a media spin-off from the popularity of Jane Fonda and her bestselling Workout Book (see box page 75). "For the public good," Trillin says, "the more people who can lift...