Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reopening of East-West trade was a major impetus. Commune-style jackets imported from the People's Republic caught the fancy of the young in Paris two years ago as an alternative to the standard jeans and T shirts. "For the past ten years in the West, the fashion emphasis has been on 'the uniform,'' says American Designer Mary McFadden. "We had to have some resurrection of beautiful fabric and fantasy, and when you go to fantasy you must go ethnic...
...depressive: "Here I am 39 years old, and my hero is still Holden Caulfield." At the top of the seventh inning, the Duke is working on a no-hitter, but he has only one pitch left in his eroded repertory: a low slider. As he muses, in Archie Bunker fashion, on how much he detests the ethnic and racial back grounds of the batters he must face, he not only loses his no-hitter but gradually loads the bases...
...world's ills. Although problems like famine and overpopulation have been licked too, the world is a pretty chilly place. It is governed by such conglomerates as Energy (located in Houston), Housing and Luxury. Sex is a sorry, mechanical business. The women of the future look like frostbitten fashion models. This may be because they are androids, vessels of mechanical pleasure. If the women are jokes, the men all look either like jocks or mush-faced stereotypes of menacingly avuncular corporate execs...
...also dotted with the lucky recipients of his approval: mayflies like Baby Jane Holzer, cultish ephemerids like Marshall McLuhan and social grotesques like the collector-exhibitionists Robert and Ethel Scull, all festooned in yards of Wolfe's glittery, incontinent prose. He was the compleat '60s fashion plate, so much a part of the hustling, celebrity-obsessed triviality of the time that even now he can hardly be detached from it-a sort of two-dimensional Cocteau, with the poetry subtracted...
...astute eye for what he knows about: namely, the pretensions of art consumers and the stratagems by which the chic of New York use new art as a tool for social climbing. There he is on home ground, being in every sense part of his frothy and fashion-ruled subject. He was there. But he was not in any of the places where art was made or serious thought about it discussed. The world of production, as against consumption, is alien to Wolfe. Hence the scissors-and-paste flavor of The Painted Word. It is not just wrong history...