Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...including "Pleasures" and "Self Center," the premiere issue features an interview with Philippine President Corazon Aquino and original fiction by Doris Lessing. There are also inspirational profiles of half a dozen exemplars of the Lear's woman, a combination of elegance, success and self-awareness. Most revolutionary are the fashion pages, which feature models ranging from 33 to 60. "We are breaking the perception that age is dowdy," says Fashion and Beauty Director China Machado, 58, once of Harper's Bazaar. The only problem she notes is with the "male photogs . . . The poor guys are taking some time to adjust...
...fastidious clientele it is entirely plausible to imagine a dissatisfied traveler to Florida bringing a lawsuit against the sun." But tireless denials of the infinite efficacy of wealth ultimately cost the author his sense of humor, and he begins to manifest the mania he condemns, in looking-glass fashion. The "civil religion" of unbridled capitalism makes everything awful to him. Among his complaints: the plethora of soaps and deodorizing products available to U.S. consumers, the lamentable historical and geographic illiteracy of most Americans, and the fact that Hollywood actresses feel the need to dress down or otherwise disguise themselves before...
...most important thing to remember," Thesiger stressed to Wilde, "is that when I did my journeys, I did them the only way they could be done, by camel or on foot." He wrote his books in the same unhurried fashion, patiently putting one incident after another, savoring the landscape, the history and the lore. As well as any travel writer of the 19th and 20th centuries, Thesiger conveys the explorers' bond of shared solitude. He shows human nature in its crucible, including the elements of savagery and the instinct for hospitality, which flourishes best in the most inhospitable terrain...
...Greeks, the original Olympians, who never have won a winter medal, led the parade as always. In the 57-nation caravan there was the normal quota of Christmas elves and bright-parkaed snowmen, but a new theme emerged: intrigue. Fedoras and spy-length overcoats were the fashion of France, Italy, Bulgaria and others, including, in a gasping surprise, the Americans. Abandoning their customary ranch outfits ("Thank heavens," said Skier Debbie Armstrong), the U.S. team wore overcoats long enough to hide tommy guns (blue coats for the men, white for the molls) and snowy, wide-brim hats from...
...example, the state of Indiana argued that if the census count were adjusted in a more accurate fashion, such as according to Rubin's methods, it would have received an additional seat in the House of Representatives and Florida would have lost a space...