Word: clingingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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One has one's favorites: Yamamoto, Armani, Ferré, Miyake. One also has one's diversions (Lagerfeld, Montana), one's objects of respectful admiration (Saint Laurent, Kenzo, Blass, the knits of Sonia Rykiel that move over the body like a Slinky toy) and one's comers...
But more importantly, it's the very same Dartmouth squad that didn't win one Ivy game all last season. That's zero. Not a one. The very same lacrosse squad that finished dead last, clinging to its all-too-familiar doormat position in the Ivies.
It is time to change the terms of debate. By focusing of Europe, we end up ignoring the frighteningly routine nuclear provocation set off in other parts of the world. By clinging to the utterly fantastic notion that the U.S. would never provoke a nuclear war, the American public accepts...
Maybe so. But at the moment OPEC is clinging to the rear bumper, and market forces are dragging the group down the road. Because of slumping demand for oil, OPEC'S production has plummeted from 30.6 million bbl. per day in 1979 to a current rate of 14 million...
The homecoming announcement marks a turning point. The atmosphere moves away from levity to confrontation; Hallie withdraws from the festivities into the role of Master Harold. Overcome by embarrassment about his father, he seeks to keep what precious little dignity he has by suddenly lording over Sam and Willie and...