Word: fashionedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In many cases, these were menial positions, tasks performed without public credit. But no matter how prosaic (geraniums planted by...), aesthetic (pigeons released by ...) or majestic (jetpack flown by . ..) the chore, the 9,000 performers who fashioned the splendor seen on television last Saturday saw themselves as putting together something...
American businessmen sometimes think of Japan as the cradle of modern manufacturing innovation and efficiency, but competition in Japan is keen and failure is common. Last week Japan's Riccar went bankrupt the old-fashioned way. They earned it. This was the fourth-largest bankruptcy in Japan since World...
Yet the feelings are not entirely formless, either. There are very few historical experiences that the world holds in common. The Olympic Games are one. "A tradition," says George Liveris, president of the Greek Shooting Federation, and once an Olympic participant. "They are the longest lasting social activity that exists...
Thatcher has come under heavy fire for not trying harder to resolve the dispute. The criticism apparently has rankled. In a blistering speech before her party's parliamentary members last week, Thatcher likened the battle with Scargill to the war with Argentina. "We had to fight an enemy with...
William Boyd's leading men tend to be ham-fisted brutes in a state of eternal frustration. Their weighty (245 Ibs.) prototype is Morgan Leafy, the splenetic diplomat at the center of Boyd's first novel, A Good Man in Africa. That account of coming of age in...