Word: calvinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pulled out of school at age 15 to accompany her father, who had been appointed ambassador to Spain by President Calvin Coolidge, her formal education stopped then, although she attended a European convent for a month and later took courses at Columbia University's New School for Social Research. "At that time, women weren't encouraged to get an education," she explains...
...Thirty-five million pairs of designer jeans, at prices ranging from $42.50 to $110, will be molded to newly trimmed bodies this year. Beyond labels, the rush to jeans reflects the American penchant for conforming to the image of the body demanded by such clothing. In the mirror, Calvin Klein and Fiorucci simply present what has become America's only authorized posterior...
...Supreme Court to stay away from certain issues-notably abortion and religion. It also states that "judicial independence has been indispensable to the workings of U.S.-style democracy." What makes you think the Moral Majority wants any sort of democracy? They want to establish a U.S.-style Geneva, where Calvin rules...
...inside the red-and green-painted garage, a carpet covers the grease stains. While the walls are still lined with tires, fan belts and hub caps, the steel hoists once used to lift cars now support jeans, sweaters, shirts and skirts bearing 20 different designer labels, including Bill Blass, Calvin Klein and Sasson. The gas is discount: $1.26 per gal. So are the threads: $29.99 for a pair of Diane Von Furstenberg jeans, compared with $41 at a San Jose department store...
...titular heroine, sexy Soprano Anja Silja was in rare form, her powerful, dramatic voice fully under control. Tenor William Lewis, the narcissistic lover Sergei, was preening and selfabsorbed, his voice strong and true. Most impressive of all was Conductor Calvin Simmons, 31, who threw himself into the music with the single-minded intensity it requires, fanning the opera's central fires to white-hot incandescence...