Word: fashionedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PROSECUTOR John Keker recently accused North of destroying classified government documents and telling "100 percent, old fashioned, all-American lies." For example, North allegedly fabricated a story about a box of cash in his bedroom to cover for his skimming money from illicit Contra aid.
Also promising but in need of a further draft or two is Crews' Blood Issue, an old-fashioned play of a family gathering leading to late-night revelation. The secret is tame by current standards: a man who feared his blood was tainted asked his best friend to sire his...
This reassembling and rearranging of historical detail is brilliantly successful: Schama's tale is vivid, dramatic, thought-provoking. Yet such is the current academic vogue for bloodless and pseudoscientific historiography that the author repeatedly feels a need to apologize for what he somewhat disingenuously calls a "mischievously old-fashioned piece...
The leaders who helped form America's tough anti-communist policy following World War II felt compelled to see the world in "black and white terms" and fashioned the communists as a demonic, monolithic enemy, said the writer.
To become anywhere near competitive in a global market, Soviet factories desperately need high-technology plants and equipment. The government recognizes this, but has gone about fixing the problem in its old-fashioned way of calling all the shots from Moscow. For example, the government has ordered far more computers...