Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what I'm going to tell my caller--to figure it out for himself. And when he leaves the great Lamont Library that is Harvard, my only hope is that he will be able to pull out his bag of discoveries, to look the Imperial Checker straight in the eye and say: "Just...
...former First Lady's comments on her relationship with her husband are revealing. She was 17 when she caught the eye of the earnest home-town boy who attended the U.S. Naval Academy. "I knew this was the person I would fall in love with, the person I wanted to have fall in love with me," she recalls. As a Navy wife, she lived in locations from Connecticut to Hawaii, far from the strictures of small-town life. When her husband decided, after the death of his father, that the family must return to Plains, she was devastated...
...Perhaps the cruelest part of femininity is that it does not age well." Perhaps not, but neither does a feminism that chronicles the past with no eye toward the future...
...Caleb finds only disillusionment. Instead of encountering awe-inspiring captains of industry who have mastered the Protestant ethic of self-denial, he rubs shoulders with a bunch of cold, grubbing workaholics whose youthful grabs at promotions only mature into grabs for profit shares. Caleb's officemates crunch endless numbers, eye each other suspiciously and find their only communal identity worshipping the institution of the firm, and the sacred text of the annual report...
...that is all one buyer could see in the wondrous fall of Miyake's fabric and the eye-dazzling depths of his layering, two things become apparent: she should not have been buying his clothes at all, and, surely, she will not be buying them well, simply because she does not understand them. But all designers are subject to such whims, and the public pays for them. Customers cannot shop in showrooms. They must rely on stores, whether run by conglomerates or a single entrepreneur, and on the taste of the buyers. No one doubts the profitability of such...