Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pair, stripped to the waist. Trying to recapture their stripped to the waist, trying to recapture their boyhood by arm wrestling. When Leontes, a bit later, sees Polixenes and Hermione innocuously holding hand, he starts chewing on the end of the tie-cord of his shirt in most unregal fashion. The men's friendship has not really matured properly during the years of their separation...
Shakespeare's quartet of romances deals, in a new symbolic and mythic fashion, with the ties of friendship and blood. At the start of each, a father is responsible for losing a child. In each, estrangement leads to remorse and eventually to reconciliation and peace. The dramatist seems in these plays to be making a statement of Christian faith, an endorsement of the redemptive power of penance...
...fact that the Vladivostok agreement [signed by Ford and Brezhnev last year] seemed to legitimize multiple, independently targetable warheads [MIRVs] is also alarming. MIRVS, which are a new fashion in military rocketry, open up wider possibilities for the arms race and increase the danger of a so-called unstable situation, in which it would be strategically advantageous for either side to deliver a pre-emptive nuclear strike. In the language of human beings, that would mean committing the greatest crime in history...
...wheels, but having them cavort like chorus girls is not an improvement. There is no bear for Siegfried to tug, alas, nor does Brünnhilde ride a horse into the pyre. But she does sleep on a genuine jagged peak-not just some symbolic platform. Reversing another current fashion, London puts light rather than gloom on everything, and the operagoer does not have to view the whole show through a front scrim...
...Arcane Fashion. Burns stressed that the Federal Reserve is not deliberately trying to push up interest rates. The board's latest tightening of monetary policy, he said, was merely intended to signal to the financial community that "a major relaxation of money supply" is not under way. That explanation brought a blast from Committee Chairman Henry Reuss, who wondered why the board did not simply announce its intentions instead of maneuvering in such an arcane fashion that interest rates did rise, thus delivering "a clout on the nose of the economic system...