Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fashion's Changes. Watered down as it was, Mao's speech remained a cry of warning against the danger of the Marxist rigidity that led to revolt in Hungary. Above all, it made clear that what Mao called the "contradictions" in Chinese Communist society were actually symptoms of widespread disaffection. Items...
...Many of our intellectuals are diligently studying Marxism and some have become Communists. Their number though small is steadily growing. [But] it seems as if the Marxism that was once all the rage is not so much in fashion...
...mirage in Wonderland-the output of 323 different manufacturers. There were hi-fi radios, sewing machines with pretty demonstrators to show how they worked, a whopping big jukebox blaring out the latest in rock 'n' roll, washers, driers, electric ranges, electric can openers, a continuous fashion show with girls modeling U.S. ready-to-wear dresses at $20 and under. Out in the back of the model house was a home workshop stuffed with power tools which none of the Poles could really believe were just for do-it-yourself fun and not state property. Their womenfolk gaped...
...boys who rioted were playing the rebels' game." In Paris, Figaro editorialized: "We are left speechless." But the students and veterans who had led the rioting were neither speechless nor ashamed. In a joint statement they proclaimed: "People of Algiers, once again you have displayed in a striking fashion your anger at too many unpunished crimes, and your determination to remain French on French soil...
Heart & Artery Disease. Deaths attributed to disease of the coronary arteries went up step-fashion according to the amount smoked: less than half a pack a day, up 29%; half a pack to a pack, up 89%; one to two packs, up 115%; two packs or more, up 141%. (Pipe smokers' rates were up only 3%; cigar smokers' rates up 28%.) Cigarette smokers' death rate from strokes was 30% higher than among nonsmokers; from general arteriosclerosis, 46% higher...