Word: fabricators
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ready for deployment until 1983. Meanwhile, the Soviets are steadily deploying the SS-20, and have about 750 warheads-each 15 times or so Hiroshima strength-in place today. In 15 minutes, these weapons could wipe out most of the major military targets and much of the urban fabric of Western Europe...
Perhaps it is fitting that the Galbraithian phrase most permanently woven into the fabric over everyday life is "the conventional wisdom," which he defines as "the beliefs that are at any time assiduously, solemnly and mindlessly traded between the pretentiously wise." Galbraith's radar for the "conventional wisdom" always makes his observations ring with that extra measure of clarity. When he wrote in a recent edition of The New York Review of Books that "Solar energy attracts people with an indifferent commitment to personal hygience and a strong commitment to organic foods," the comment transcended mere economic analysis. Likewise, when...
...nation's pulse quickened, as "Freedom Summer" took on a national character. Demonstrations, legislation, burnings, beatings, jailings--it seemed to be everywhere, tearing at the fabric of American society. It was Harlem, then Rochester. Its flesh was the flesh of Jimmie Lee Jackson. Lemuel A. Penn. Freddie Lee Thomas, James Reeb and other fallen civil rights workers. Its soul was the soul of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Terrell County. Georgia, one of many Negro churches burned or bombed to the ground. Its mentality was that of sheriff James Clark and other faceless, mindless segregationist law enforcers singlehandedly determined...
Beyond the fear of a new war and the squeeze of a chaotic economy, social problems old and new are tearing at the fabric of Israeli
...robes. "It's true I was influenced by Japan," says Armani. "But the real inspiration is born when you examine what you did last season and try to sharpen your focus, softening a line that was too rigid, changing a color that was too hard." As a former fabric designer, Armani starts every collection by putting together threads, colors and weaves in an innovative selection of materials. "He spends days just looking at fabric samples," says his business partner Sergio Galleotti; there are 100 different materials in the present show...