Word: collared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...younger boy made for a seat but his older friend pulled him away by the collar of his yellow Lacoste and gestured for the girl to sit; she deferred to an elderly man with a cane. The older boy smiled encouragingly and leaned back against the side of the car, but the girl was too involved with her watch to notice...
...hours of work, arranges weddings in the $10,000-to-$35,000 range. "If someone tells me they have $8,000 to spend," she says, "I tell them to take a picnic." Peggy Leary, who runs a catering business called Ruffles & Flourishes in Boston's blue-collar Charlestown area, reports that the traditional--and pricey--sit-down dinner is being replaced by a cocktail reception that features "heavy hors d'oeuvres." The prospect of a weighty canape is daunting enough, but Stephen Elmont, head of Boston's Creative Gourmet, likes to talk about "food stations. People are in motion...
...world pick out Ralph Lauren as the designer they think of as "most American," that may be because Lauren has put his signature, and his galloping Polo logo, onto garments that had been in the national fashion vocabulary for years. From beach house to boardroom, pinstripe to roll collar to penny loafer, Lauren codified and merchandised America's dearest dreams of middle-class elegance, then brokered the fantasies back to the market that inspired them. This has nothing to do with design as practiced by Kawakubo or Miyake, but Lauren has seized on a national stereotype and sold it around...
During the 1972 presidential campaign, the Democratic candidate George McGovern discovered something about the American dream. Speaking to some workers in a rubber factory near Akron, he made a promise that he thought would make him popular with blue-collar workers. He said that he would increase inheritance taxes so the rich could leave very little to their families after their death. To McGovern's surprise, he was loudly booed. The workers didn't like the idea. They wanted to leave as much money as possible to their families. It was part of the American dream to make the next...
Still, Department 260's near total automation amounts to more than the old and familiar threat to the shrinking blue-collar work force. Says Krukowski: "Before, you always needed people out there to build the special items. It's the sophistication of the automation here that has to have people worried...