Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...favorite of the ever-favored anti-affectations are horn-or wire-rimmed glasses, a.k.a., spectacles. Just about everyone I know who wears glasses wears them because, after years of trying to find "fashion" frames to fit our faces, they have surrendered. They are happy to wear these at best non-existent and at worst ugly face braces because they are better than trying and failing to find flattering eye wear...
While grownups are busy becoming children again, children are intent on becoming grownups. In addition to the play pots and pans and stoves that cook, there are plastic telephones and radios. Above all, children are drawn to the "action figures" and fashion dolls, which allow them to invent grownups over whom they have complete control...
Alex wanted his youngest sister to win the coveted Thomas Dewey Award for Academic Excellence, which he had received for three consecutive years. With his trademark snideness, he lamented the "dry season" in academic awards that his family had experienced during "The Mallory Years"--the time when his ditzy, fashion-concious sister, Mallory, was in junior high school...
...want to see development in the Square done in a controlled, sensitive and environmentally sound fashion...
...dredge a local lake, in part so his friends could use it for water-skiing. Koepp moved to TIME in 1981, and in five years as a writer he probed such topics as the declining quality of American service, national gridlock, foreign investment in the U.S., Ralph Lauren's fashion empire and Disney's Magic Kingdom. Last month Koepp took charge of TIME's Business section...