Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novel begins in typical Ludlum fashion. Joel Converse (read haunted protagonist with a conscience), a Vietnam vet turned prominent international lawyer, is called by a friend from the past. The friend tells him of a sinister plot by retired but fanatical and influential generals to take over the world. They've got money, brains and connections everywhere. And they've been shipping guns to terrorist groups all over the world, and moreover they are planning a series of assassinations and uprisings which will soon catapult the military into power. Converse is cynical, after all he's got his cozy lawyer...
...doing so, that they will now be dismissed either for impractical idealism or for boring preachiness. White's sensitive health and unaggressive integrity, taken with the fact that he wrote in the highly personal form of the essay, made him vulnerable to shrill attacks long before vulnerability was the fashion...
...pretrial publicity has been vast. De Lorean, lanky and handsome at 59, and his fashion model wife, Cristina, 34, make lively copy and photos. De Lorean's rise to the top corporate ranks at General Motors, his attempt to prove that he was an automotive genius by creating and producing his own $26,000 futuristic car, and his disastrous wrong turn into association with agents posing as drug smugglers, all are the stuff of high drama. Declares Defense Attorney Donald Ré: "I have very serious concerns about whether an impartial jury, to which John is entitled...
...problem began in the mid-1970s, when many American users began to realize just how lethal "smack" could be and when a rival drug, cocaine, rose to new prominence. With heroin falling out of fashion, the number of hardcore American users has dropped from a peak of 700,000 a decade ago to 500,000 today. The slippage in this key market coincided with a 1979 drought in the Golden Triangle, the mountainous region where Burma, Thailand and Laos meet. The area has long produced much of the world's supply of poppies, from which opium and heroin...
...same outfit can communicate panache or pathos, depending on the nature of the hanger: When attire reflects strongly developed character, the wearer can get away with anything from Preppyism to transvestism, and perhaps (ironically) even inspire a trend in the process. But when fashion becomes an expression of identity crisis, the result is impostership, which only makes the individual look worse for wear...