Word: fabricating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...model for authority relations in college. Students were to be treated as adults with negotiated rights and responsibilities. Many students insisted on a "consumer university" where due process was a supreme value. They challenged disciplinary procedures and established a dichotomy between "us" and "them." As a result, the social fabric of institutions was transformed and the communities that comprised their scholarly life came to be constructed from adversarial relationships...
...marriage was far stronger than it is today. In the end, it is conceivable that the trend toward monogamy engendered by AIDS could lead to a drop in the still-rising percentage of marriages that result in divorce. How ironic that this scourge may help to heal our social fabric...
...Communications Decency Act seeks to prevent the exchange of material which undermines the morals of individuals and the fabric of civil society itself. This legislation's intent is a noble...
...changes his entire appearance a couple of times a year. His fashion reputation is based on his rampant inspiration, his romps through costume history that turn archives into seductive, in-your-face clothes. His specialty is the slinky, tricky, bias-cut dress (cut across the grain of the fabric), which is the design of choice for movie stars--or anyone who wants to flaunt a shapely figure. Galliano was chosen to revitalize Givenchy by Bernard Arnault, president of LVMH, which owns not only that house but also Lacroix and Dior. It was time, Arnault had decided, to put Hubert...
Many will argue that art is simply a reflection of society; that it's wrong to fault it for expressing trends that are simply part of our underlying cultural fabric. But art is by no means an unbiased sample of the feelings and mores that its creators are exposed to. Rather, it is a lens which is used to focus, isolate and amplify certain trends that the artist wishes to bring to the public's attention. This process in turn helps to reinforce the sentiments that engendered...