Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some of the hippies will call this paternalistic, saying that implicit in the offer of admission to Harvard is a trust that the admitted student is smart enough to make their own fashion decisions. Just like now: they say anyone whom you trust to lead America into the next century should be trusted to lead themselves through Currier House without committing a spontaneous felony. I say to these people, tell that to the 25 upperclass students mugged in their own rooms every year by cash-strapped a cappella groups that have turned to banditry. Think what would happen...
After 60 minutes of play, Harvard's playersdemonstrated their superior concentration andstamina. In the sudden-death period, Collinsevaded the wearied Quaker defense and crushed theball into the right corner, sealing the win indramatic fashion...
...talk of "moral hazard," and for once it had nothing to do with Bill Clinton's sex life. Instead people were talking about the danger created when government backing for private lenders encourages them to take bigger risks--in search of bigger rewards. That danger was demonstrated in dramatic fashion when the Federal Reserve had to engineer the rescue of Long Term Capital Management, a high-flying hedge fund that as recently as August controlled high-risk, global investments worth more than $120 billion--enough...
...primitive. You can probably imagine the clash when Waters brings Pecker's blue-collar subjects together with his chic discoverers. Much more fun--as always in Waters' genially transgressive movies--are the rich portrayals of his fellow Baltimoreans, among them Christina Ricci's Laundromat Nazi, Mary Kay Place's fashion-forward thrift-shop owner and Jean Schertler's goofy grandma using a statue of the Virgin Mary to practice some pious ventriloquism. Check...
...male viewers, however, the fashion in this film is strictly fall season, all long pants and sweaters and coats, which is a flagrant rejection of the first rule of the teen scream genre. The producers make a lame tribute to their audience's hormones with a barely genial swimming pool and party scenes that let bikinis and low-cut party dresses make a necessary appearance...