Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Practical-minded modern Americans have been contemptuous of follies, those curious buildings meant only to charm and delight. But recent architectural fashion has been tending toward the fey, even the frivolous. This winter in the American heartland, form follows fantasy completely: in St. Paul and Galveston, Texas, local volunteers have just finished putting up elaborate municipal whimsies...
...OUTRAGED? Or offended, indignant, nauseous or otherwise mortified by Sports Illustrated's annual exhibition of flesh in the name of fashion...
Pornography says women are objects--that they are to be admired as bodies, lusted after or used as sexual objects. Call it art and they are still objets d'art. Call it fashion and you're just fooling yourself...
Later, at the indoctrination center, Offred sees her mother again, this time in a newsreel approvingly shown by the authorities: "She's in a group of other women, dressed in the same fashion; she's holding a stick, no, it's part of a banner, the handle. The camera pans up and we see the writing, in paint, on what must have been a bed sheet: TAKE BACK THE NIGHT." Now there are no sleazy districts in Gilead. A woman can walk in public without being whistled at or worse. Offred wonders what her mother, if still alive, thinks about...
...types of terrain, some similar to the "valleys and layered deposits of Mars . . . the grooved terrain of Ganymede (a moon of Jupiter) and the depression faults of Mercury." The crusts of Miranda and three of the four other major moons, Soderblom said, "have been tectonically shuffled in a cataclysmic fashion," probably by the powerful tug of gravity from Uranus, which has a diameter four times as large as the earth...