Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Shop on John F. Kennedy Street is marketing the classic bulldog busters shirt again. The 100 percent cotton shirt was reprinted from last year, says Clare M. Corcoran '86, daughter of owner Paul R. Corcoran...
Described by Yalies as "tops" and "awesome," Sally's is a classic, what Coke is to soda, what Harvard is to college...
...started to help Third World nations develop simple industrial and agricultural tools. As president of the British Medical Association during 1982, he stressed the need for what he calls "complementary medicine"--that is, "looking at a person not so much as a machine, but as the whole, in a classic, ancient sense." Charles is drawn to asceticism: he apparently fasts occasionally and rarely eats red meat. He shies away from being called a vegetarian, maintaining that he simply prefers fish and fowl. Diana, who also eschews meat, attributes her imperial slimness (which some palace watchers have whispered was anorexia...
Estee Lauder's is a classic American success story: the child of poor immigrants makes good through ingenuity and hard work. But until now that has not been grand enough for this heroine. Lee Israel's unauthorized biography might not exist except for the heavy makeup job Lauder applied to her origins. It is also possible that the lady's own gutsy book would not have seen print without the challenge of Israel's research...
...with consummate grace. Whether he is posing with candid self exposure in a Playboy interview ("I had a super skinny morphology throughout my youth") or indulging in speculation about the culinary orgasms of Brillat-Savarin ("BS desires the word as he desires truffles") or performing with routine ease a classic clinical dissection of text ("A Textual Analysis of a Tale of Poe"), it is with an incomparable delicacy of taste that he transforms personal fetishes into profound insight...