Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...marketing as manufacturers came to shape public tastes in color. In 1934, for instance, the American Tobacco Co. found that women wouldn't buy Lucky Strikes because the then green box clashed with their clothes. The solution: make green hot. In short order, the company set up a "color-fashion bureau," underwrote a green-themed society ball, enlisted magazine editors and bought off French couture houses. By year's end hordes of newly sensitized women started buying Lucky Strike packs as fashion accessories...
...postwar color technology had so expanded the usable universe of hues that without some sort of coordination, the public was in imminent danger of being overwhelmed by mismatched home furnishings, clashing car interiors, repellent fashion combinations--in short, a crisis of widespread bad taste. Thus was the CMG born, and ever since, a small army of colorists has congregated twice a year to bring order out of chaos. In closed caucuses, members hash out the social and political trends affecting future tastes, then produce the 15 color "directions" that will appear everywhere three years hence...
...Sunburst U.S.A. International, gives away more than $1 million in prizes every year. At age six, Lisa Iverson is already "Miss American Beauty Queen of Hearts," "Children of the World Supreme Winner," "U.S.A. National Scholarship Little Miss," Hawaiian Tropic "Superstar Photogenic," Hawaiian Tropic "Hollywood Babe" and "Miss American Starlet Fashion Model." She has won enough money to pay for college...
...near his office. Even while eating, he seems to be multitasking; ambidextrous, he switches his fork back and forth throughout the meal and uses whichever hand is free to gesture or scribble notes. "All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion," he explains. "We can someday replicate that on a machine." Earthly life is carbon based, he notes, and computers are silicon based, but that is not a major distinction. "Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system...
...Asian American Association (AAA) is expecting more than 1,000 participants at its Intercollegiate Conference scheduled for Valentine's Day weekend, organizers said. The event will include speeches, a fashion show and a dinner with former CBS anchor Connie Chung...