Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foursquare behind black majority rule in Rhodesia and South Africa in a showdown with South African Prime Minister John Vorster in Vienna, announced on his return that Great Britain stood solidly behind America on that intricate issue. U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young pushed the same cause -in his inimitable fashion-during a 20,000-mile, eight-nation tour. (He also managed to outrage Russians, Swedes and residents of the New York borough of Queens with comments about their "racist" attitudes.) Secretary of State Cyrus Vance reported progress toward a new arms-limitation agreement after meeting Soviet negotiators in Geneva; this week...
...late Sixties saw a burst of cultural symbolism--each product of which was greeted with either glee or derision. Every milieu made its own contribution. The fashion industry bestowed the miniskirt, musicians drummed up acid rock, drugs brought their own cults etc. etc. In retrospect, these symbols elicit smiles--even laughs--of recognition from those who participated in, and watched their rises to popularity, and subsequent plummets to oblivion. Still, they deserve sober contemplation. The apolitical, self-absorbed demeanor of many members of the present generation decrees that these social signposts be regarded as fads. Such a viewpoint belittles...
Farrah Fawcett-Majors, move over ... way over. Trim may be in almost everywhere, but when Chicago's big Carson, Pirie, Scott department stores staged a fashion show for what the industry delicately refers to as "half-size" women last week, there was ample evidence the company was on to something big. Five sturdy models-two professionals, three recruits-displayed summer wear in sizes from 16½ to 18½ (available sizes go up to 24½). Said Carson's fashion director Ardelle Tuma: "These women have been ignored as customers who want to buy fashionable clothes. There...
...activity. Thus when one member of a family has been caught as a security risk, the house where he lives, perhaps with a mother, father, brother or sister, has been either blown up or, in more recent years, sealed up. Last year seven houses were cemented shut in this fashion. Sometimes curfews are imposed on whole towns for the offenses of a few. In retaliation for mass demonstrations and rock throwing by a group of angry Arab youths last year, the entire city of Ramallah (pop. 20,000) was shut down for eleven days. Its citizens were allowed...
...Giordano Bruno barks, maestro-fashion, at the beginning of this piece, Tragedy taken too seriously becomes Farce, and forced Farce is Tragedy. Real laughter is indiscriminate in its intuitive understanding of the irrational, as well as its recognition of the ubiquity of absurdity. How then can the Lampoon take itself seriously? One might as well ask how a harpoon can harpoon itself...