Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...estimated $1 billion on surfwear this year; many of the buyers are beach potatoes who are nonetheless attracted to the images of eternal youth and endless summers. "Surfing is a metaphor for a style of living," says Surfer Magazine Publisher Steve Pezman. "Therein lies the appeal of the surf fashion...
...growing number of Americans are titillating their restless palates with exotic fruits and vegetables. Mostly tropical and native to Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, this colorful harvest used to be found only in ethnic neighborhoods. Now many of these edibles are becoming standards, not only at high-fashion greengrocers but in the supermarkets of several major chains. "Foods that look strange now (as ginger, shallots, bean sprouts and even avocados did not so long ago) may soon be common in our culinary vocabulary," writes Elizabeth Schneider in her carefully detailed and timely new buying guide and cookbook, Uncommon Fruits...
...face of such realities, Mengistu, 45, is trying to fashion a policy that combines the rigors of socialism with capitalist flexibility. While he is moving Ethiopia toward a centralized, state-controlled economy, he welcomes private foreign investment. At present, most of the country's crops are privately grown and some industry is in private hands. Associates say that from the moment Mengistu became chief of state nine years ago, the Chairman, as he is known, has been a nationalist first and a Marxist second. Now Mengistu is reaching the zenith of his influence at home and abroad. "Ethiopia...
...that befalls well-governed states when just men fail to hold on to power. Titus features three hands chopped off, one tongue cut out, two doses of unknowing cannibalism, plus gang rape, and murders by sword, starvation and bleeding to death. Director Pat Patton represents the gore in Japanese fashion, with streamers of red ribbon, but audiences still titter as bodies heap up on the stage. Titus, a great general defied by his children and betrayed by his country, is often regarded as a forerunner of King Lear, lacking only the self-realization. Actor Henry Woronicz finds in the role...
Some installments, more ambitiously, try to fashion an appreciation of the subject by combining biographical material with excerpts from his or her work. The results are uneven. An upcoming 2 1/2-hour show on Eugene O'Neill brings on Actors Jason Robards and Geraldine Fitzgerald, among others, to perform scenes from O'Neill dramas. Interspersed are labored re-creations of people and events from the playwright's life, complete with sound effects (snoring in a flophouse) and performers impersonating such O'Neill intimates as his wives Agnes and Carlotta and Critic George Jean Nathan...