Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would question that those concerned with the upcoming election have a duty to highlight those differences in crystal-clear terms. What is problematic with this campaign, however, and what emerged again Wednesday although in tempered fashion, is a willingness on the part of both parties to excuse vulgarity and pointlessly malicious conduct in the name of a better America...
With Tarsitano's praise the consensus of many experts. Evans have given up her Harvard tennis career-which included three years as the Crimson's top seed and three berths on the All Ivy squad-for the glamorous world of high fashion modeling...
...title says it all, so to speak. There's this young cove, Bertie Wooster--a straight chap, if a little fogged sometimes. Now this valet Jeeves drops into the lap of this Wooster and dusts the cobwebs out of his life, dispensing a few useful fashion hints in the process. Not that Wooster doesn't need a firm hand for some get up and go--he can barely adjust his own ascot...
...peers; he is also the most insistent on the aesthetic worth and quality of his work. For years he has received international recognition; recently he has been accorded museum shows in Europe and the U.S. Other Japanese designers will get their first official portion of Western respect from New Fashion Japan, a fast, smart and wholly seductive volume. Leonard Keren's sleek text is augmented with graphics that convey the essence of contemporary Japanese clothing design, plus a suggestion of its enterprise and a taste of its excitement...
Koren is untroubled by the customary Western distinctions between art and handicraft. "In the dreamlike language of fashion," he believes, "a people are communicating the current ideals, values and aspirations of their culture." That idea may be refuted; it may be bought wholesale, on time or at closeout; but the best place to window-shop while thinking it over is this shrewd and knowing introduction to a closet revolution...