Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have served as a resident tutor in Claverly Hall for four years. I have witnessed students of other racial and ethnic backgrounds shouting, playing guitar, singing and carrying on in other forms on the steps of Claverly in much noisier fashion at much later times in the day and evening. Why do you think African-American male students were singled...
...were gaudy advertisements for an America that owned three-quarters of the earth's cars. Automobiles were the symbols as well as the vehicles of individual and national progress, so why shouldn't Americans have the most ostentatious models--with new fins each year? At the height of fin fashion, American cars (with sticker prices about the cost of a Levittown house) resembled the pagoda-shouldered pottery courtesans in Tang dynasty tombs--exotica from a lost age of extravagance. The 1958 recession sent the style into decline. Fin de siecle...
...Floater, the magazine's Lifestyle section schedules stories on such trends as obscene topiary and the hot new fashion of wearing two-thirds stockings (two-thirds of the way to the knee or two-thirds of the way up the leg or maybe a third missing in patches; nobody seems to know). The writers feel oppressed by an editor they call N.R.F., for No Redeeming Features. The Medicine writer often comes down with the symptoms of the disease he's writing about. Office romances are carried on so discreetly that the rest of the staff becomes aware of them sometimes...
...Harvard softball team kicked off its season last weekend in grand fashion, traveling 1,500 miles and 40 degrees Fahrenheit to sunny South Florida and taking four of six games against stiff competition...
...members of ECHO (Eating Concerns Hotline Outreach) were postering during Eating Disorders Awareness Week one afternoon, a couple approached a freshly-plastered bulletin board and began reading a poster aloud: "If the average male fashion model were of the same proportions as the average female fashion model, he would...