Word: fashioned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Aviv, his olive-drab shirt sleeves rolled up in Israeli military fashion and his demeanor stern, Lieut. General David Elazar took time out from battle decisions and battlefront inspections to assess the war ravaging the Middle East. Israel's stocky, graying Chief of Staff spoke tersely and to the point. When a newsman asked whether he would agree that the Middle East's fourth conflict in 25 years of Arab-Israeli hostility should be called "the Yom Kippur war," Elazar proposed an alternative. It would be better called "the war of the Day of Judgment...
...BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT. A morose lesbian paces her apartment, suffering the inconstancy of her lover. Since she is a fashion designer by profession, there are a number of mannequins in the apartment, and it is the inspiration of Director-Writer R.W. Fassbinder to have his heroine come to look more and more like one of her dummies. The Platters, the Walker Broth ers and Giuseppe Verdi furnish the music, the art director furnishes the flat-outside of which the movie never strays-and Fassbinder furnishes still another reason why West German movies are regarded with as much...
...happen to support Israel in the current crisis, but I simply fail to understand what service sensitive and intelligent intellectuals think they are performing for the life of the mind when behaving in this fashion. I should like to sound a warning: Unless this behavior is brought under control, we will make shambles of intellectual life at this great institution. Martin Kilson Professor of Government
...establishing some sort of first this time as the trip will be managed by Maria Kacandes," McCurdy said. "John Noble (the other manager) is folding in gracious fashion to female pressure groups, but you know what's going to be said about Woman's Lib if we lose. If we win, though, Noble is through...
That advice has long been out of fashion in a nation surfeited with material abundance, but now it may be on the verge of a comeback. At the height of its biggest boom, the U.S. seems almost to be based on an economy of scarcity. Shortages of an astounding variety of goods-fuel oil, nonferrous metals, wool, copper, cotton denims, vinyl records, plastic bottles, to name a few-are jacking up prices, interfering with production, and in some cases directly threatening American living standards...