Word: far-out
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Milan basked in the heady perfume of spring flowers and international applause. The ready-to-wear collections paraded at the Italian fashion center last week triumphantly upheld its tradition of sophistication and charm. By contrast with the far-out fantasy fashion of Paris, la moda milanese stands more than ever for inventive, well-made clothes that are wearable in a real world: functional but feminine by day, dramatic but not stagy by night...
...Ronald Reagan is as successful in imparting "old values" as the life-styles of his four children seem to indicate, we liberals have little to fear. If their lifestyles reflect old values, we are in for some far-out years...
Unlike gutsy founding fathers, corporate managers?responsible to boards of directors and subject to intense public and political scrutiny?are often less willing to risk, to dare, to take the calculated gamble on an innovative product or imaginative idea. Yet it was precisely far-out ideas that gave capitalism the creativity that it sometimes seems to lack today. For corporations, a prime challenge of the 1980s will be to find means of restoring the verve of the entrepreneurs, while preserving the best of modern management techniques...
...women, in general, appeared to be hippies, lesbians, or from other far-out groups. Most of them were very colorfully dressed, but the majority (sic) wore faded blue jeans. Most seemed to be making a real attempt to be unattractive... One of the interesting aspects of the delegates' dress was the extreme fuzzy appearance of their hair...someone said this was gotten by braiding their hair in tiny braids and leaving it that way while it was wet until it dried. Then they would take out the braids. From the looks of their hair they apparently didn't bother...
...far-out scheme could reduce the city's heating bills