Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know Government very well, nor does he fully understand what has happened to this society and the world during his long life. But his unshaken belief that individual initiative is still the main ingredient of each person's success has already changed American society in a remarkable fashion...
...defense spending rather than a modest rise (2,592 to 1,128); and the elimination of runoff primaries when no candidate receives a majority in the first vote (2,501 to 1,253). The intensity of black feeling over the dual-primary issue was demonstrated in almost brutal fashion when Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young spoke against the Jackson plank. Other black delegates booed and shouted throughout Young's brief speech. "You damn turncoat!" screamed one black delegate. "Uncle Tom!" cried another. Sweating profusely, Young looked shaken as he left the podium...
Bill and Evelyn Lewis met at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute: he was a sprinter, she a hurdler, both of them long jumpers. Evelyn, especially, loved floating in free flight. With slim legs tucked tightly under her in the fashion of the day, she sailed over 19 ft. at college and was bound for the Helsinki Games in 1952 until a hurdle injury interfered. Evelyn had to stop competing at 20, and all these years later, some incomplete feelings linger. There are no spectators in the Lewis family, but the varied athletic directions of the children suggest a reasonable tolerance...
This summer, what is considered "fashion forward" looks backward. The name of the frame game is "retro," and the chicest styles recall the '50s and early '60s. The hip grandfather of the look is the Ray-Ban Wayfarer. The dark, clunky, squarish shades with a street-tough elegance evoke the likes of Buddy Holly and James Dean, and are as much a talisman of the '50s as white socks and penny loafers. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd wore them in the movie The Blues Brothers, and in Terms of Endearment Jack Nicholson seemed to have Wayfarers grafted...
...fine suburb had several black servants-trusted cooks who were allowed to invite their grandchildren to spend their holidays in the backyard...a shifting population of pretty young housemaids whose long red nails and pertness not only asserted the indignity of being undiscovered or out-of-work fashion models but kept hoisted a cocky guerrilla pride against servitude to whites: there are many forms of resistance not recognized in orthodox revolutionary strategy...