Word: fashional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, no one is about to be thrown into TV jail, but a new batch of shows is playing ever faster and looser with the line that separates fact and fiction. These specimens of "reality TV" come in two varieties: those that try to fashion drama out of real life and those that try to make drama look like real life. As the real and the fake get harder to tell apart, ethical and aesthetic questions get trickier...
...deliberately less doctrinaire. "Ms. approaches the world with 'feminist' assumptions, but it doesn't mean we use the word in every sentence," says Summers. Despite these changes, the new Ms. is still in transition. "We are neither a workingwoman's magazine nor a traditional woman's magazine, nor a fashion magazine," declares Summers, unwittingly leaving the impression that she is far more certain about what Ms. is not than what...
...years, and . . . vote every six months." One of Chirac's attractions remains his past two years in office. The Premier already has a majority in the 577-seat National Assembly that he can use to govern if elected. On the other hand, Mitterrand, if re-elected, would have to fashion his own parliamentary majority...
...once, primary-night hoopla matched reality. After a week of bogus suspense in which it appeared that Jesse Jackson's insurgent tide might carry the state, Dukakis took New York in grand fashion, 51% to Jackson's 37% and only 10% for Al Gore. The victory ended any hope Jackson had of fighting Dukakis to a draw -- an outcome that would have produced chaos at the Democratic Convention in Atlanta. Though Jackson, after a period of uncertain silence, insisted he could still win the nomination, Campaign Manager Gerald Austin conceded that his patron's prospects had turned "pretty bleak." Even...
...initiatives." Brountas predicts that the domestic agenda of Dukakis' first year in the White House would consist of perhaps a "half dozen manageable programs." Seated one row behind a dozing and generally far vaguer Dukakis aboard the campaign plane, Brountas ticked off some of the priority issues in lawyerly fashion: housing, drugs, health insurance, college education and improving the status of teachers...