Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moreover, János Kádár, once out of favor with the Kremlin, now leads the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party. The man's wife appears in the company of a punk rocker in black leather; she has remarried, she says, and has opened a fashion boutique. "Where am I?" moans the Hungarian. "Can this be socialism...
Steel-industry executives who sought the quotas nonetheless praised Reagan's action. Bethlehem Chairman Donald H. Trautlein called it "an appropriate response." U.S. Steel Chairman David M. Roderick said the President's plan "moves to correct the steel trade program in a comprehensive and enforceable fashion. If fully implemented, it would put 25,000 to 40,000 steelworkers back...
...boast a more stunning sense of style. But New Wave Disco Queen Grace Jones, 32, has been knocking men out in a more direct fashion on location in France for the new James Bond film, A View to a Kill. The script casts Jones as May Day, who tries to outfox Her Majesty's secret agent. One scene called for Jones to hoist a 6-ft., 180-lb. KGB agent over her head to put him in his place. Jones says she could have lifted Actor Bogdan Kominowski on her own, but the studio insisted that supporting wires...
...FASHION JAPAN by Leonard Koren Kodansha; 176 pages...
...that the latest major movement of national popular culture to have international impact-like the French new wave in films or the British invasion of American rock music-is clothing from Japan. Fashion has generally been tied to society, to frivolity, to pricey artifice in the service of camp and commerce. It is a subject that seldom rates serious attention. There are not, after all, a lot of clothing designers who deserve it. But of those who do, a disproportionate number are Japanese. If someone as gifted as Issey Miyake were making movies, he would already be hailed...