Word: fabrics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Commencement, a group of neighborhood activists led by now-City councilor Saundra M. Graham marched on the Tercentenary Theater, protesting what they and as Harvard's disregard for the fabric of residential Cambridge...
Even before Americans began cutting back, the U.S. was temperate about alcohol, at least by comparison with many other nations where drinking is deeply woven into the fabric of social life. Changes now are also visible abroad. Thanks to a government sobriety pitch and a burgeoning fitness trend, in 1984 French consumption of table wine was down 4% from the year before. Diabolo Menthe (mint-flavored fizzy lemonade) and Brut de Pomme (a cider) are the latest nonalcoholic quaffs at cafes. "People used to drink wine with their meals as a matter of course," Claude Vilain, of France's Committee...
Coke is now inextricably woven into the very fabric of 20th century American history. All of our fathers started taking all our mothers out "for a Coke" at the corner soda counter. GIs thoughout our history have punctuated their between battle rest with an ice-cold bottle of Coca-Coda...
Through dozens of such interviews, Swanson evokes tensions apartheid produces both within and among South Africans, regardless of race. Irrational prejudices form the fabric of daily life, creating a host of often debilitating psychological and social distortions. According to one Afrikaner, one of the first lessons white South Africans receive in their military service is to expect Blacks guerillas to return their fire; many whites would otherwise have considered Blacks incapable of such a feat...
DIED. Angelo Donghia, 50, American interior decorator whose contemporary design innovations, including severe upholstery on plumply overstuffed furniture, shiny lacquered walls and unusual combinations of fabric textures and patterns, became widely popular through shrewd marketing arrangements for products carrying his name; of pneumonia; in New York City. The first U.S. home-furnishings designer to endorse a line of sheets, in 1973, Donghia went on to promote his own decorating fabrics, furniture, china and glassware. His Manhattan office, which he called "gray flannel heaven" for its trademark men's suiting wall covering, welcomed such famous clients as Diana Ross, Ralph Lauren...