Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the new mayor promised to tackle Carmel's No. 1 problem, tourist parking, he may first have to deal with the tourists, who are expected to jam city council meetings. "We'll encourage nonresidents to stay away," Eastwood quipped in his best tough-guy fashion. "Maybe with a two-by-four with a nail...
Italy's tainted-wine scandal con- tinued to spread in ugly fashion last week. More than five weeks after a number of vintners were first discovered to be adulterating their low-priced table wines with methyl alcohol, which is more commonly used as a paint solvent, at least 22 Italians had died and about 90 others were hospitalized after drinking the contaminated product. As the death toll rose, the Italian government listed some 300 labels as suspect, prompting worldwide concern and threatening the country's $953 million wine-export trade...
...SIXTEEN DANCERS enter into the wide open clearing formed by the audience seated on the floor who become, like the chorus in classic epic, the inclusive margins of the ritualized performance. Throughout the evening, which proceeds largely in the fashion of oral narrative, the audience is incited to sing, cheer, lament, and otherwise express on cue their sympathies for the story being "made" in their midst. At the end, following the shamanistic purging performed by the women's "Dance of Life," the shamans invite members of the audience to join in the final frenzied clamor of the nan-jang...
...spirit of this award let me suggest that the Business School give an award to Imelda Marcos for her contributions to Fashion Marketing. Maybe she'll give Harvard a few pairs of shoes...
...specific target of the rising Korean protest is an electoral system under which the country's 41 million people choose more than 5,000 electors, who in turn select a President. Chun has suggested that the 1988 elections be held on schedule in the traditional fashion. The winner could then oversee a constitutional reform and direct elections in 1989. His opponents, who fear that Chun's hand-picked successor may renege on such an agreement, want constitutional reform now. Under pressure from Washington, Chun finally allowed the opposition to organize rallies to collect signatures of support for the proposed reform...