Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attract young men who cannot yet afford a Boss suit, the company last year came out with a line of casual wear, including sweatshirts, jeans and sports jackets. Price range in the U.S.: $50 for a sweatshirt to $180 for a typical jacket...
...Watteau. He is almost as much of an enigma as Vermeer. He was born in Valenciennes in 1684, the son of a Flemish roof tiler. Until a few years before, Valenciennes was part of Flanders, not France; and Watteau's Flemish origins may have had more than a casual meaning to him, since the main influence on his work was Rubens. Nothing is known about his political views, family affections or sexual life. He had no fixed address; yet once he reached Paris, he rarely left its gate. His only recorded trip outside France was to England, where...
With New Sensations, Reed has abandoned his insecurities and turned away from the dark forces of the outside world. Instead, he is content to rest, for the entire album, in his Rooftop Garden. At its best, this attitude gives the album a certain offhand charm and casual sweetness. At its worst, Reed's new-found complacency segues into a timid syrupiness about the world that caters...
Spark's effortless casual linkage of a bad marriage and a shooting spree is not the least of her accomplishments. One of the lasting delights of the book is Spark's almost infallible ear. At a press conference about his wife, a reporter asks Harvey...
Every evening, during the rounds of diwaniyas, a sort of casual salon of talk and coffee sipping that begins in the late evening, the Kuwaitis ponder their uncertain future. Says one politician: "We fear that Kuwait's freedom will be the victim of these attacks on our tankers." But it is more than just Kuwaiti freedom that is at stake. It is Kuwait itself. -By Richard Stengel. Reported by Barry Hillenbrand/Kuwait and Johanna McGeary/Washington