Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PERHAPS THE MOST ODIOUS effect of pack journalism, though, is the "winner's bus" attitude. Like bees to honey, journalists flock to a winner; it is both glamorous and exciting to herald the victor's progress. Crouse suggests that this feeling unconsciously prompts reporters to fashion their subject into a winner, to write stories that too exuberantly predict his success. Sometimes they are left in the lurch, like the disillusioned reporters who roseately optimized Muskie's rortune but suddenly discovered that the bus had run aground without warning...
...sound is so distinctive, his melodies are so appealing, his orchestrations so skillful, that Rachmaninoff's music simply will not go away, despite the condescension of academia and the critics. He may not have written music "of his own time" (assuming serialism and atonality to be the proper fashion), but then neither does Benjamin Britten nor Dmitri Shostakovich. Nor, in other eras, did Edward Elgar or Bach worry about being in vogue...
Bellies and Bottoms. To keep up with merchandising trends, most mannequin manufacturers employ research divisions that keep a sharp eye on fashion and retailing changes, and even try to anticipate them. "We have to know down to the second the latest happening," explains Bernard Robbins, president of Manhattan's Herzberg-Robbins. "After all, we want to reflect the newest look, including hair styles and makeup." When black pride swelled in the early '60s, mannequin makers were ready with black models. More recently, they have created "the ethnic look": dummies with Mexican, Eurasian or Oriental features. Some mannequin makers...
...every mannequin maker caters to the whim of such major high-fashion stores. Others sell solely to chain stores
...Guard provides one of the best shows in town, without cover or minimum. At the height of the evening, clusters of singles stand sardine-fashion, gripping their drinks and watching the action. By midnight, the place is a low-lit, smoky, shrieking bedlam-a blend of screeching rock and swirling bodies. Over in the Other Room, a special chamber for the post-35 set, a champagne music duo is playing Make It Through the Night...