Word: fashioned
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Bernard Tapie is a prototype of the new French entrepreneur, the personification of an emerging capitalist spirit that is popping up in unexpected places all around the world. With an enthusiastic push, he asks, "Why are we, who have invented everything from fashion to gastronomy, not the most powerful economic force in the world?" In addition to emceeing a television show, Tapie has peddled his views in a best-selling autobiography titled Winning and a popular record called Success in Life. Following the example of his hero, Lee Iacocca, Tapie appears in openly nationalistic television commercials for his own products...
...late 1970s, however, all the varied roads to socialism were converging on dead ends. "Most governments were seeking to reduce the public, and expand the market, sectors of their economies," writes Historian Paul Johnson in his chronicle, Modern Times. The retreat was foretold by a swing in intellectual fashion. It began with the 1970 publication of Jean-Francois Revel's Without Marx or Jesus, which praised U.S. society as open and pragmatic and rejected socialism as a dogma that had failed...
...farm workers relatively free to make business decisions and to absorb losses or pocket gains. Leader Janos Kadar encourages small private ventures, with results that can be seen across the country. Virtually every Hungarian town boasts restaurants with tempting food and smooth service, clothes stores with high- fashion wear and bustling streets filled with numerous shops...
Profits, of course, have never been out of fashion in North America. Yet now there is greater interest in the private sector. Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney last year sold De Havilland Aircraft to Boeing for $113 million and was promptly attacked for making the deal at "fire-sale" prices. Retorted the Conservative leader: "I don't believe that government should do what private industry can do better." Mulroney may next take offers for Air Canada, the national airline, and may even entertain bids for Canada Post, the country's mail service...
...show many credit as the genre's best, My Fair Lady (1956). Those lush romantic period pieces became big-budget Hollywood movies, usually with scripts by Lerner, and the two created another nostalgic costume epic, Gigi (1958), directly for the screen. Their style of show eventually went out of fashion. Their songs never did: Thank Heaven for Little Girls, If Ever I Would Leave You, They Call the Wind Maria, I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face. After Loewe retired in 1960, Lerner collaborated with composers including Burton Lane, Andre Previn, Leonard Bernstein and Charles Strouse but never matched...