Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue than David Riesman, who, over a generation ago, recognized that a style of give-and-take is a crucial feature of America's success at fashioning pluralistic solutions to the conflicting claims of its numerous ethnic subcultures. Over time this process has allowed successive generations of Americans to design a dialectically unique cultural-political synthesis which is general or universal enough to sustain a successful nation-state yet parochial enough to nourish a kaleidoscopic subsystem of ethnic particularisms--some originating and gaining substance solely within the American nation (e.g., Mormons...
...might alter the topography of a machine by opening or closing a gate. There was a short-lived trend toward multiball games, with certain holes shooting a second or third ball into play while the first was still active. But these were no better than tail fins on a design moving steadily toward obsolescence. Until Bally created Wizard, the essentially two-dimensional character of pinball remained...
That Cleaver is serious about the marketing of his pants seems clear. He has been awarded an international patent on the design and its many variations, and he fully expects not only to sell them around the world, but to have them on the covers of Vogue an Harper's Bazaar. He even speculated that every man in the United States will feel so compelled to buy the pants that the economic recession here will end overnight...
...Sure," Cleaver laughed. "I can make any design, any dimensions. Custom-tailored...
...order to mimic the richer gold or silver dishes used by the court; elaborate dishes and bowls; and several examples of that ethereal and, for some reason, uncopiable turquoise-glazed black-figure ware which was produced in Syria around the 12th century. One plate (see cut) bears the design of a heron, stalking with incomparable grace through this background color as if through azure water. The body of a vase is adorned with leaf-shaped flecks of black, each done with one movement of the brush, but the design−in all its swift irregularity−is full of vitality...