Word: fashional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State of the Union address to Congress and submits his budget proposal for fiscal year 1987, the Government must face up to the full force of Gramm-Rudman, the automatic deficit-reduction measure enacted last year to balance the budget by 1991. Unless Congress and the White ^ House can fashion a budget that reduces the federal deficit (now estimated at more than $220 billion for fiscal 1986, which began last October) to $144 billion for fiscal 1987, the infernal machinery of Gramm-Rudman will grind into gear, indiscriminately slashing some domestic programs by as much...
...impossible to raise taxes or cut Social Security unless the congressional leaders of both parties, as well as the President, are actively in support. What is more, there is little time to act. Under the rigid timetables set by Gramm-Rudman, Congress cannot afford, in its usual fashion, to dither all year long over the budget. If lawmakers fail to pass a budget, the automatic cuts will kick in on Oct. 1. Says Democratic Senator Don Riegle of Michigan: "Congress has never, ever, met a timetable as swift as this will be. It's like riding a bullet...
Contemporary designers clearly welcome the museum as a reaffirmation of their traditions and the ongoing importance of their work. "I think it's a very good idea to put fashion in a museum, and the Louvre in particular," says Hubert de Givenchy. "It should have been done a long time ago." Adds Azzedine Alaia, the most inventive of Paris' younger generation of designers: "It's all fantastic. I hope to be exhibited there...
...setting is sublime," says Yvonne Deslandres, 63, who spent the past 25 years collecting some 9,000 costumes that form the core of the museum's permanent collection. It is also highly symbolic: the windows, worked neatly into the exhibition space by Kahane, overlook a splendid Parisian landscape where fashion still thrives as it does no place else in the world. Just a short distance away are the couture houses of Saint Laurent, Madame Gres, Givenchy and Dior, which began their spring/summer showings even as Mitterrand was presiding over the museum's official opening. In March, the courtyard...
Restoration comedy depicted a world obsessed with money, manners, fashion and family tree, severe in its standards of social acceptability and brutal in its treatment of those deemed unfit. Bond's adaptation of the genre retains its rounded invective and withering humor. The wicked lord, pondering the corpse of his rich, social-climbing bride, decides to prop her up at the table: "Stretched out on the floor could only encourage the lowest of surmises." His equally malicious mother, listening to the plea on bended knee of the duped servant's wife, says imperiously, "Get up, child. A thing...