Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Christian redemption. Yet it is by turns a panorama of the underclass, a Gothic romance about love at first sight threatened by family secrets, a psychological study and a radical tract. The novel's scale and complexity seemingly defy adaptation to a musical, especially one that in the fashion of opera, sets every word to song. The stage version's triumph is that it captures the book's essence while speaking with absolute clarity to that vast majority of spectators who have not read the novel...
...cooler than it is today. Giraffes, hyenas and baboons abounded, along with now extinct giant horses and hartebeests and buffalo with 13-ft. horn spans. Neanderthal man had not yet emerged, but intelligent beings already roamed the savanna, upright creatures known today as archaic Homo sapiens, who could fashion crude axes, picks and cleavers out of stone. On a clear night 170,000 years ago, one of these ancestors of man may have looked up at a milky band of stars stretching across the sky, his eyes pausing briefly on a patch of light that seemed to have broken away...
...born into a natural family, interference with natural sexual reproduction between husband and wife, or attempts at sinister scientific "control and domination" over the human person. In addition, the Instruction expresses fears that reproductive technology invites discrimination among human beings, weakened protection for vulnerable people, and eugenic schemes to fashion a more desirable super-race...
Reebok's $180 million acquisition of Avia Group International is another case of like marrying like: both companies make aerobics shoes. Reebok, which clads the feet of the fashion conscious, controls about 70% of the $330 million aerobics-shoe market. Privately held Avia, whose sales have risen from $3 million to more than $70 million during the past three years, enjoys about a 15% market share...
...Fashion...