Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SEXES, July 23]. What would you say about a man who wears velvet pants, lace collars, silk stockings, a purse and a perfumed handkerchief? Would you consider him part of the breakdown of civilization as we know it? No, he is Louis XIV of France. History repeats itself, especially fashion history, and that is all this manifestation is, fashion regression...
NFOLIBERALISM exists only on an elite axis that runs between Cambridge, New York, and Washington. It is a faddish strain of thinking among Fast Coast eggheads who like to fashion movements that as a concept holds out some promise. Once someone thought up the word neoconservative, neoliberalism was not long in coming, as has been made clear in the pages of the New Republic, the Washington Monthly, the Atlantic and other journals of the cognoscenti. Gurus abound in the likes of Robert Reich, I ester Thurow, and Charles Peters--and there are plenty of politicians who have been ready...
Those who have not been downtown recently will find even it has been spruced up. At the Midnight Mission on Los Angeles Street, the stubbly men are listing with great formality. A rental shop donated about 200 out-of-fashion tuxedos to the image of the city. If nothing else, foreign visitors must concede, no where in the world are the bums better dressed...
What Washington wanted, for one thing, was time to fashion a concerted NATO response that will please Warsaw while satisfying anti-Communist Polish Americans. A White House official confided that President Reagan's decision "will be guided by what's good for the Polish people, what Polish Americans want and, most of all, by the wishes of the Catholic Church." Pope John Paul II has long made it plain that he would like to see an end to sanctions against his country, among them Washington's veto of Polish membership in the International Monetary Fund, as well...
...called Pink Zone can fool the unwary. For his $50 the tourist may get only imitation Gucci shoes, but real Christian Dior and other designer-label apparel is available for less than U.S. prices. Some visitors, however, find the clothes a bit dated. Said New Yorker Cindy Altfeld: "High fashion hasn't really hit Mexico...