Word: fashionization
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This is an arrangement that can't go on forever. It should unravel; that's the way of economic change and progress. But there's no plan in place to make it happen in an orderly fashion. The fear that the ensuing adjustment might be even more chaotic than in the 1970s probably explains most of the dollar's recent decline. It's not that we Americans have gotten a lot poorer. It's that we might be about...
...Vanguard rocket that the U.S. hoped to send up that morning was a modest, --pencil-like thing, but in what was already the American fashion, we switched on the TV cameras to let the world watch the show. A show is what they got. The rocket flew for a total of 2 sec.--and traveled 4 ft. (1.2 m)--before eating itself in a fiery explosion. The global hilarity was immediate, but U.S. officials--who had much to learn about the science of rocketry but clearly knew plenty about the art of spin--would have none of it. Asked...
...that I went to high school directly across the street from some Brown tennis courts, I didn’t really investigate Brown culture until a couple of weeks ago.It was then that yours truly attended a dank party in an eerie house, in order to anthropologically investigate the fashion of Brown University. I did it for you, gentle reader. It’s always valuable to keep track of the fashion trends at other universities—doing so makes us aware of how woefully behind we are on all sartorial issues.It wasn’t very hard...
...past that point." He admits he occasionally stops on Seinfeld while flipping through the channels ("I watch it now, and I go, 'Oh, now I see why they liked the show'"). No, he says, dollar signs do not flash before his eyes when he sees it in syndication. "Bad fashion choices flash before my eyes." Seinfeld isn't impressed by most TV now and believes that the medium's fragmentation over the networks and the sprawling cable universe has made it too difficult to get together great writing staffs. He says he has never seen The New Adventures...
...subtler than the acclaim that, say, The Beatles once enjoyed—teenagers around the world haven’t adopted her hairstyle...yet—it nevertheless places her under a perpetual spotlight. Every aspect of her life is fair game for scrutiny, from fashion faux pas to comments about female scientists to the car she drives. How a person chooses to travel can say a lot about her, but Harvard provides a default mode of transportation. Along with an official residence, the University offers its commander in chief a black Lincoln town car, which once sported a license...