Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Even durable Captain Video has been downgraded to a supporting role in a local show called Wonderama, where he shares billing with a drawing teacher and a cooking instructor. The only planetary wanderer left on the network air is CBS's Captain Midnight, who last week, in the fashion of spacemen everywhere, was locked in combat with the inevitable mad scientist...
Despite all the chalk, there is no lecture at the blackboard. There are a few too many whiffs of symbolism, but Playwright Bagnold is neither mystical nor didactic. Instead, after the fashion of all true high-comedy writing, something simply becomes the more touching for having seemed brittle, the more penetrating for having seemed fagade-like. The paper chase of upper-class antics and insolences does lead to the human heart; among so many blank-cartridged witticisms there are one or two real bullets...
...rambling fashion Clair's plot tells of two prison buddies who want to escape their dull routine "pour la liberte." One of them succeeds and soon becomes president of a phonograph factory. The other, an incorrigible remanticist, is captured. After his subsequent release, he takes a job on the assembly line in his materialist friend's plant. The two discover each other, the police discover the materialist, and they start all over again...
...custom of painting sweet and simple pictures has dropped out of fashion. Styles in art keep changing just as they do in architecture, wallpaper and automobiles." Even with the most grotesque abstractions "one sometimes begins to like these paintings, just as someone may learn to appreciate a homely woman because of her fine spirit. A modern abstract artist no longer paints his mother from a particular spot in the kitchen, at a particular hour in the afternoon when the light falls on her face with a certain glow. Instead, he paints a composite idea of his mother to show...
...picked horses by studying the shape of their skulls. Horace Greeley suggested that in the interests of safe train travel, brakemen should have the right-shaped head. There was even phrenological housing: Orson Fowler had built a mansion in the shape of an octagon, which started quite a fashion for octagonal houses...