Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life that was lived harder and faster than most (mood: appassionato; tempo: allegro con brio), Leonard Bernstein would have turned 75 this week. But the polymath pianist, conductor, composer, television personality, Harvard man, Broadway baby and quintessential New Yorker died in 1990, leaving a hole in the fabric of American musical life that many have found irreparable. In the three years since Bernstein's death, sales of his records have doubled, his compositions have started to win greater respect, and his legend has waxed. It's almost as if the great man had never left. It's almost...
...breathless feature in the current Vanity Fair -- is thus among the more implausible. It is also the most annoying, because Cosby's hangers-on are so strenuously pushing the notion, because it is such an indulgence of Cosby's self-righteous vanity, and because the story is a fabric of so many spurious bits of conventional wisdom...
Another summer is upon us and with it come the sounds of the season; children splashing in backyard pools, the sizzling of burgers on the grill and the nation's social fabric being hopelessly torn by the two misnamed sides of the abortion debate...
...among government agencies. "We spend more money trying to determine whether people are eligible for services than we do in serving them," Reno says. "We've got to figure out how to take the federal bureaucracy and weave it together as a whole, so that we can reweave the fabric of society around our children...
...Seersucker. This miracle fabric (along with khaki) worked for the British Empire, at least for a while. It works for Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. It can work...