Word: dust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rome, but couture is my metier, and I learned it in Paris. But I always keep my Italian accent when speaking French, and so do my clothes." By the time some State Department of Fashion has worked out all the coded signals and careful contradictions in that dispatch, the dust will have settled. There is always a lot of it around during fashion season anyway, especially when the clothes aren't good enough to clear...
...happened in a single year, just a half-century ago. The dark days seemed to have ended at last -- the years of the Depression and the dust bowl -- and Americans were regaining their pride and self-confidence. They had touched bottom, but they had pulled themselves up. As the '30s ended, the New York World's Fair summed up the nation's suddenly buoyant mood with its official march, Dawn of a New Day. And who, in the atmosphere of optimism that marked the start of 1939, could have doubted that...
...Harvard wrestling team reached for the stars and hit the dust in the Eastern Championships at Lehigh this weekend, its final wrestling competition of the season...
...theorize about the origin of pulsars, those superdense, fast-spinning celestial objects that appear to blink on and off as % often as every millisecond. Now the mystery seems to be solved. Last week an international team of astronomers announced that they had detected a pulsar emerging from the murky dust clouds left over from Supernova 1987A, a giant star that exploded about 170,000 light-years from earth and was first seen two years...
This baroque gem might have remained under its layers of dust indefinitely except that 1987 marked the 300th anniversary of Lully's death (of an infection that started after he accidentally stabbed himself in the foot with the cane he was using to conduct his music). The anniversary-loving French authorities decided to join with those in Lully's native Italy to finance a hearing for the man who is considered the virtual inventor of French opera...