Word: fashioners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TRAGIC END of the late Sid Vicious could not have come at a worse time for the Ramones. In his inimitable fashion, Vicious, ever the loser, managed with his fatal taste for smack and violence to sour promoters around the country on anything that smells remotely like punk...
Whether this bias is hidden as a superpower, cold war calculus in the fashion of the Time article, or marked out as some latter day white man's burden, it is a bias that the American press, and the American people have not yet overcome. The lessons of Vietnam are still as unlearnt as the lessons of Iran. And as long as we continue to see only one option--support of a westernized client--the press and the public buy the line that the U.S. can overcome the opposition that their clients' repression inevitably creates...
Inside this week's issue of TIME is an interesting document about a remarkable enterprise: the annual report of Gulf & Western Industries, Inc. That broadly diversified corporation is celebrating its 20th anniversary and is marking the occasion in distinctive fashion. The 64-page pull-out section is the largest advertisement ever placed in any publication. Companies often seek to explain their business to the public through ads, but never before has a firm made such a comprehensive statement to so many people at one time...
DIED. Elizabeth Hadley Mowrer, 87, the first of Ernest Hemingway's four wives; in Lakeland, Fla. Mowrer (nee Richardson) and Hemingway were married in 1921. Five years later, he divorced her to marry Fashion Writer Pauline Pfeiffer. Remorseful, the novelist dedicated The Sun Also Rises to "Hadley," assigned her its royalties, and wrote fondly of her and their one child "Bumby" in his memoirs, A Moveable Feast. In 1933 Hadley married Paul Scott Mowrer, a Pulitzer-prize-winning foreign correspondent and later editor of the Chicago Daily News...
...argues that Conrad's Polish origins colored his art just as much as did the years spent at sea. Indeed, the prophetic pessimism of Conrad's fiction can be traced to his youth; a child of the 19th century, he was tossed about in true 20th century fashion. Born in the Ukraine in 1857, he quickly became a pawn to a larger power. His father, a nobleman and Polish patriot, was convicted of political crimes by the occupying Russian authorities and sent into exile, along with wife and child. In arctic solitude, young Conrad watched his mother...