Word: famed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DECORATION DAY (NBC, Dec. 2, 9 p.m. EST). James Garner plays a retired judge in a Georgia town who encounters the bitterness of a black World War II vet in this languid, treacly slice of Americana from the Hallmark Hall of Fame...
...further and further from reality. Most women I know have two kinds of clothes: work clothes and play clothes, in evening and weekend varieties. If women are not tending children at home, the clothes for work outnumber all the rest. So why is it that most designers of any fame produce garments intended for some weird fantasy life? I'm looking at a crotch-length strapless tweed dress topped by a blazer. Even in the permissive world of journalism, where am I going to wear this number? To interview the Secretary of State? I understand fashion's need...
...divorce. Today's young adults dismiss old gender stereotypes and limitations. They expect equal opportunities but want more than mere equality. It is their dream that they will be the ones to strike a healthy balance at last between their public and private lives: between the lure of fame and glory, and a love of home and hearth...
...They drove from their farm near Topeka over to Abilene, Kans., for a family reunion at his great- aunt Ida Eisenhower's white frame house on Fourth Street, south of the tracks. Her son Dwight was either in Washington or Europe, even then on the edge of his great fame...
...Iranian leadership's unease over the U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia is not assuaged by the heritage of Operation Desert Shield's commander, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf. The general's father, also named H. Norman, won fame for investigating the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, but some Iranians remember him for another accomplishment: the elder Schwarzkopf, with bags of cash and the blessings of CIA Director Allen Dulles, helped organize the 1953 coup against Prime Minister Mossadegh that led to the ascendancy of the Shah...