Word: denims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stepped up to the monument commemorating their nation's most venerated martyr. Then Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra and Interior Minister Tomás Borge Martínez laid a single wreath on the tomb of Revolutionary Hero Carlos Fonseca Amador. Two dozen grammar school students, clad in denim shifts or designer jeans, shook their fists and cried, "The Yanquis will die!" before breaking into bashful giggles as adults smiled their approval. Finally, a high school marching band tramped loudly up to the monument, throwing a gaggle of preschoolers into disarray. As some toddlers cringed, while others sucked their...
...children living in the Houses now, from Jonathan Flick in sweats, with his keys on a string around his neck, looking like any other student playing on the Quad, to Jessica Dowling in purple tights and a denim skirt, seem more mature than other children their age. The younger ones are unusually chatty, but without exception, the children their age. The younger ones are unusually chatty, but without exception, the children come across as very bright and self-sufficient...
There was a period during the '60s and early '70s when snobbery of the classic sort seemed, superficially, at least, in some danger of disappearing into the denim egalitarianism of the time. It never could, of course. It just changed form; and the Revolution, while it lasted, enforced its own snobberies, its own political and even psychic pretensions. Today, snobbery is back in more familiar channels. A generation of high-gloss magazines (Connoisseur, Architectural Digest, House and Garden, for example) flourishes by telling Americans what the right look is. The American ideal of the Common Man seems...
...denim," he says. In those early years, the shapes had their traditional roots as well. Miyake made a housecoat, called a tanzen, into a hooded wool coat and turned striped cloth used to lead horses on ceremonial occasions into a jersey. He made tucked cotton jumpsuits so intricate that he evoked origami, the ancient art of paper folding, and he turned a farmer's backpack into a knit jacket. Says he: "I was trying to peel away to the limit of fashion...
...denim jacket over his pinstripe suit and tie, John Glenn Jr. sat behind the controls of his ivory and red, twin-engine Beechcraft, ready to take off for a regular weekend of campaigning. It was 7 o'clock on a recent Friday morning, and today the candidate would head for Ohio, then loop all the way back to the northern tip of Maine. Glenn does not like to start his days so early. He is a man of endless patience, but overscheduling Glenn, aides know well, is one of the very few things that cause his temper to blow...