Word: fashionedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Caddell fashioned a campaign that presumably would appeal to "The Big Chill" crowd. The idea was to invoke the spirit of J.F.K.'s "New Frontier" and the "commitment" of the '60s. Biden didn't have the fire in the belly in '84, and Caddell brought his master plan to Gary...
For such firm loyalists, ideology knows no borders. "I think Bruce Springsteen is a blind nationalist," proclaims the former trooper in the easy drawl he has copied from Florida deejays. "Sure! Just look at that title, Born in the U.S.A.!" Even here, though, things are not quite as clear as...
On that score he seldom failed. With Ira as lyricist, George composed the up tunes that seemed the antidote to depression, financial or psychological. Composer Alec Wilder remarked, "Since Gershwin was rarely given to sad songs, what could have been a more welcome palliative for the natural gloom of the...
In other circles, of course, that image of hippie looseness is exactly what draws people to Esalen. As the institute's co-founder and chairman Michael Murphy cheerfully admits, "Esalen's reputation gets better the farther away you go." These days up to half the people who stay for a...
In Man of the House, Tip O'Neill takes the last approach, figuratively pulling up a chair at Barry's Corner, his old hangout in Cambridge, Mass., and regaling the reader with a string of let-me-tell-you-about-the-time anecdotes. Already some of the book's barbed...