Word: fashional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Linkletter show, they announced her grand prize: a trip to Europe to see the fashion houses. She went to France, drank wine, ate well, saw the Folies-Bergere. It broadened her, and later, when men came into her life, she found them "drippy" for all their narrow interests, to say nothing of the feeling she had that none was the sort to take her back to Europe...
While the big companies are busy scrapping over conventional toys, this year's biggest breakthrough, the talking bear, has come from small entrepreneurial firms. Filled with stuffing and wiring, these toys can speak, after a fashion, with their owners. The most popular is Teddy Ruxpin ($60 to $80), a 20-in. bear whose eyes and mouth move when it speaks from a recorded cassette. Ruxpin's voice comes from a tape player in its back. The manufacturer, Silicon Valley's Worlds of Wonder, will ship as many as 750,000 by Christmas but still cannot meet demand. Says Stewart Brown...
This layer of society is relatively new to Avedon's camera, which is more commonly trained upon Nastassja Kinski's pout and Brooke Shields' rump. He has spent more than three decades at the pinnacle of fashion photography. But at the same time, he has perfected a mordant style of portraiture that mocks the earthly vanity his fashion shots glorify. The fixtures of that style are familiar: unsmiling figures shot in sharp focus against a plain white background. (Avedon started his career taking identity-card shots for the Merchant Marine.) The results can be pitiless. With every wrinkle...
...most sophisticated of photographers, Avedon would be the last to claim that his pictures are the truth, the whole truth and nothing but. He expects no one to believe the glamour-drenched fantasies he constructs for his fashion pictures. But he also knows that in taking a camera out among ordinary people, he raises expectations of more resolute truth telling. Avedon is throwing those expectations back in the viewer's face. Sometimes it takes a fashion photographer to show that "realism" is art's subtlest cosmetic...
...Weinberger were often tactical rather than ideological. Last August McFarlane wanted to push Shultz and the President away from their support of the Botha regime in South Africa as the antiapartheid protests mounted. He even hinted that if he failed, he might quit. He was the first to fashion a plan to get the Government started on the Strategic Defense Initiative, known as Star Wars. But he came to see it basically as a means to pressure the Soviet Union toward resuming arms talks and eventually achieving a sharp reduction in offensive weapons. The talks were reopened, but McFarlane...