Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sportswear is renowned for its sexy variations on the sweatshirt, but lately Designer Norma Kamali has been perspiring about her unwanted association with a different fashion tradition: the sweatshop. Last week the New York State department of labor said it had slapped Kamali with a record $10,000 fine for illegally employing workers to cut and sew garments for her at home. It was the first time a big-name designer had been singled out for breaking the state's 1935 sweatshop law. Kamali stopped using the homeworkers, mostly Hispanic and Asian, when state labor officials began in December...
...Terry Waite on Celebrity Roundup any time in the near future. The same press that hailed him as the last hope of the Lebanese hostages now fills the spaces that once broadcast his message of hope with spreads on seasonal fashion trends and recipes for triple-tiered Jellocakes. People magazine, which hailed him as one of "1986's 10 most interesting people," has dropped him from their party list. Terry Waite, seized several weeks ago by Muslim fundamentalist, is a media nonentity...
...film. Also, Schygulla's performance is excellent: she's alternately the Virgin Mary in slut's garter belt or Bloody Mary wearing a false halo. At its core, The Marriage of Maria Braun is a story of the mental and moral devastation of war, told in a fashion much like "Alice In Wonderland...
...Intelligence Oversight Act requires prior notice of a covert action or, in particularly sensitive cases, notification "in timely fashion." that was generally thought to mean a few hours or days, not eleven months. But Congress is unlikely to pursue a legal challenge in this instance, partly because it is not eager to make an issue of its own impotence...
...productive students could fill schools like Hope University across the U.S. She has a point: savants are of growing interest to psychologists. Leon Miller, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, feels that "few researchers have looked at mental retardation in a fine-grain fashion. They haven't gone into the heads of the kids." Psychologist Bernard Rimland, of the Institute for Child Behavior Research in San Diego, notes, "It isn't surprising that we don't understand much about these aberrations. We haven't even begun to understand how the normal brain functions...