Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...profile of sarah palin [Sept. 15]: I read in disbelief the petty, malicious comments about her repetitious jokes, her husband (Obama's campaign has no such problems?), her 3-in. heels and her speeches given while "leaking amniotic fluid." What will you write about next? Perhaps more about her fashion sense or-please-her bodily functions? Would it be more acceptable if she wore 2-in. heels? Will all women running for public office now be subject, along with their families, to this level of physical scrutiny and irrelevant analysis? Is there any chance that Time can become once again...
...Three Studies. Until the postwar years, he was largely unknown except perhaps to the older men who supported him, his multitude of male pick-ups on the side and whatever clients he attracted for a time as an interior designer in London. Decades later, stripped of any associations with fashion or taste, the ghostly outlines of his Bauhaus-flavored interiors and steel-tube furnishings found their way into the stark spaces and barred enclosures of his paintings. You detect them for the first time in the series of paintings he made from the great Velázquez portrait of Pope...
...friend from Shanghai leaned over to share her shameful secret: "I watched some of the Olympics," she said, in a tone of voice implying that this was a transgression akin to sleeping with her best friend's boyfriend or - even worse in this fashion-crazed city - toting an obvious knock-off handbag. For months, many citizens of China's most populous city gritted their teeth as Beijing got all the glory. But now that the Olympics are over, Shanghai is determined to reclaim the title of China's most happening metropolis. Just four days after the Summer Games' closing ceremony...
...history, Shanghai owes its prominence to having served as a key trading port for colonial powers. As China accelerated market reforms in the 1990s, the country's first stock exchange was established in Shanghai, and much of the foreign direct investment that flows into China comes through here. Fashion houses, banks and law firms gravitate first to Shanghai, not Beijing. Still, the past couple of years have not been kind to the city. A cancerous corruption scandal, uncovered by the overlords in Beijing, claimed Shanghai's Communist Party boss and a chunk of the city's ruling élite. Shanghai...
...Chug one beer in a manly fashion every time McCain says that he “puts Country first...