Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...France, fashion designers peddle their latest bikinis; in the United States, cub reporters crowd the beaches for news of the year's first drownings; and in dictatorships all around the globe, armies roll out the tanks for dry season counteroffensives...
...power as a trend-setter is always overestimated. The 1985 Biennial was laden with East Village, post-graffiti kitsch by Kenny Scharf and others -- gaudy ephemerids who, instead of going on to further heights of success as a result of their inclusion, have shriveled in the hot wind of fashion that blew them into the Whitney in the first place. Undoubtedly, 1985 marked the nadir of the Biennial's reputation; it was the worst in memory...
...says Carole Shaw, editor in chief of BBW: Big Beautiful Woman, a glossy, color fashion bimonthly for larger women, the apparel industry has changed considerably from its thin old days. Then the belief was, as Shaw puts it, that "as you got fat, you got poor." Now the feeling is that nothing fosters growth -- and profits -- like a rich diet...
...between O'Toole and his audience. O'Toole ! often pauses in three-quarter profile, displaying the blond mane that has edged imperceptibly toward silver, the classical beauty that seems enhanced rather than marred by a slightly lopsided jawline. His Higgins is a star turn in almost 19th century fashion -- at once shrewdly alert Shavianism and a brilliantly calibrated indulgence in boyish adorability...
...nice to be treated like a woman," sighs Susan Arcidiacono with pleasure. A ritzy health club? An elegant hair salon? Not at all. The swanky suburban San Diego setup belongs to Women's Health Centers of America and is a model of a hot '80s health-care fashion: the women's clinic...