Word: fashionableness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...watching the Food Network constantly. What is going on? I think it's one of the most pronounced cultural trends of recent years. People are interested in food and they want to approach it with discernment. There are probably more reality shows that deal with cooking than deal with fashion. I know 17- and 18-year-olds who watch Top Chef and while they're responding in part to the competition, there's all this discussion of ingredients and what goes together with what. The fact that we have young people who find that as fascinating as they do - well...
...Crimson committed several errors and allowed UConn to creep up at 21-17, a kill from junior Mikaelle Comrie earned Harvard the following possession and an eventual six-point lead. Throughout the third, the home team dominated on offense, hitting for .556, and won the set in decisive fashion, 25-17.Harvard carried momentum from the third set into the fourth, opening the frame with a 3-0 run. UConn matched Harvard’s offensive efforts, and the fight for the lead commenced yet again. The two teams tied nine times during the fourth.Jostling for the lead, Harvard received a boost...
...peep toes and platforms. So constant is that devotion, in fact, that when the princess wore ballet flats to a royal audience with students this summer, the gossip magazine Hola put the story at the top of its website. Whether her affection for the high heel is a fashion preference, or a necessity dictated by her husband's 6' 5.5" (197 cms) height, remains a state secret...
Spaniards are reveling in their princess' new status as fashion icon. "She has done more for Spanish fashion in the past five years than decades of catwalks and advertisements," writes Maria Jose Iglesias, a journalist whose columns appear in regional papers throughout Spain. The local edition of Elle magazine agrees; in May it ran a special issue on Letizia, declaring her "the best ambassador of Spanish fashion...
...wasn't always thus. Letizia's status as a commoner, as well as her previous marriage to school teacher Alonso Guerrero, offended some of the old guard in Spain. And the hothouse world of the fashion and celebrity press has criticized her for changing her hairstyle too often, speculated on whether the pressures of the palace have driven her to anorexia, and weighed in cattily when news broke that the princess had submitted to rhinoplasty in order, in the palace's version, "to correct a breathing problem." (Thankfully, everyone seems to agree these days that the surgery has flatteringly softened...