Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...train stops in the stillness of time. Passengers in this single car of the Orient Express luxuriate forever in a reverie of richness. The burnished wood of the dining car, the deep upholstery of the seats, the soft, shaded lighting make the figures stand out in relief, their clothing a testament to social identity and design legacy. In this ravishing tableau, the train is merely the transportation, the setting. It is the clothing that offers a round-trip, first-class ticket for a giddy voyage into the past...
...intention of the new Museum of Fashion Arts, inaugurated this week in Paris by French President Francois Mitterrand, to make sure that the sun always shines brightly on the world of fashion. Tableaux like the Orient Express--part of the museum's premier exhibition, "Moments of Fashion," a display of costumes spanning the past three centuries--may have a sentimental cast, but they also have a dramatic vibrancy. The new museum, which is contiguous to the Union of Decorative Arts and part of the Louvre, thus becomes one of the world's foremost facilities for the study of clothing...
...administrators forgot that while society can afford to lose a few commuters every year in the name of commerce (even the space-bound sort), that's only if the corpses don't get onto network TV. Putting McAuliffe on board to prove that the shuttle is the People Express of space was recklessly tempting fate's penchant for dramatic irony...
...State Department said the more than 15,000 Americans in Haiti were safe, but did not express support for Duvalier and indicated that half the $51 million in U.S. aid Haiti was to receive this year may be held back because of human rights violations...
Harper said the letter implied no criticism of him and that at no time during the season did any member of the Red Sox express any dissatisfaction with his job performance...