Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to the dictums issued by fashion magazines earlier this fall, the look of the season was "a new glamour," but it might just as easily have been described as call-girl chic. Women were supposed to stride around in stiletto heels, fishnet stockings and microminis -- some of which Vogue featured in colorful versions of rubber and polyvinyl chloride. The same style dominated the spring collections shown in Paris and Milan last month. There were front-slit short skirts from Karl Lagerfeld, gold-mesh biker shorts from Gianfranco Ferre and rhinestone-studded hot pants from the team of Dolce & Gabbana...
...more fashion-oriented magazines, including Glamour and Vogue, are more popular among students who prefer looking at photographs to reading stories...
...basic structure remains the same. It is a structure forged in the early industrial age: the school as factory turning out regulation graduates, with teachers as laborers, principals as foremen, and supervisors as, well, supervisors, running every detail from the curricular to the custodial in a strictly top-down fashion...
Some have attributed ER's success to Americans' current anxiety about health care. A more likely explanation is simply that it supplies something that's been missing from TV for years. Medical dramas have long been out of fashion; the last successful one, St. Elsewhere, was less concerned with the nuts and bolts of medical care than with often baroque interpersonal drama and nuthouse comedy. ER has rediscovered the primal appeal of the doctor show, and a new generation of viewers is eagerly watching...
...Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and replace old nuclear-power plants that produce weapons-grade plutonium in exchange for a big payoff: free fuel oil and $4 billion (mostly put up by South Korea and Japan) to build safer light-water reactors that yield a type of plutonium more difficult to fashion into atom bombs. Hans Blix, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, complained about a "long and complex, difficult road" to be traveled during the five years it will take before Pyongyang opens its suspect sites to inspection. Bringing the accord into full effect will take a decade. Some...