Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protest only with disappointment the best of solutions implemented in the most short-sighted fashion. Students should press to keep the old lottery system until a new one can apply fairly...
Perhaps publishers really believe that a model carrying a surfboard sheds light on some vital aspect of either surfing or current beach fashion. But the more probable explanation for the wave of February cheesecake issues is money...
...whose artistic class has been liberated into hedonism, a figure like Almodovar can serve as both court jester and king. He was so proclaimed last week when the Spanish newsmagazine Cambio 16 named him Man of the Year: "Our best representative in a world in which Spain is in fashion." And now the 37-year-old man from La Mancha is world cinema's flavor of the month. His latest film, the relatively benign Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, is a solid international hit. The comedy has earned $2.5 million in just ten weeks of limited...
...target of all this firepower was Pierre Berge, 58, the autocratic president of the $400 million-a-year Yves Saint Laurent fashion empire and the designer's companion of 30 years. Some said Berge's chief qualification to be head of the governing Association of Theaters of the Paris Opera was that he had contributed handsomely to Mitterrand's re-election campaign last year...
...seven months there and wondered aloud how much time Berge was planning to take off from Saint Laurent to work on opera. "When he refused to accept my conditions," Berge declared, "we broke off negotiations. I cannot let the money of the state be spent in so extravagant a fashion." And he did not like Barenboim's slurs, either. "I am not the head of any old couture house," he said. "I built a fashion empire out of nothing...