Word: faux
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only a few years ago, wearers of costume jewelry attracted sneers from fashion setters, who considered the plastic or glass baubles to be as chintzy as they were gaudy. But now imitation sapphires, rubies and diamonds have found both new stature and a new name. So-called faux (French for false) jewelry is being sported by the likes of Liz Taylor and Jackie Onassis. "It's the best of both worlds -- very theatrical but also very classy," says Actress Raquel Welch, who has been seen wearing a smoke-and-mauve faux necklace. "And it's not so expensive that...
Economic Policy Institute, Washington. Founded by five economists, including Jeff Faux, this think tank will develop alternatives to Reaganomics...
Lakhdhir, who has served on the academics andsocial committees of the council, has spoken outin protest of sexism and council faux pas.After she had resigned, Lakhdhir attended a weeklycouncil meeting to denounce a council forumadverisment that read, "Come Bitch at Us." Shecalled it sexist and offensive and demanded anapology, which she received...
Groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving have been effective because they make the community conscious that drunk driving is a serious societal problem, not a faux pas. But the killing goes on because irresponsible people mix alcohol and automobiles...
...trying not to do it as much as I have done it in the past," she explains, "only because there was so much talk about it and it was kind of ridiculed." Campaigning last year seemed to convince her that she can venture out alone without making costly faux pas. She has learned to resist her tendency to hunker down and hide. These days, she says jauntily, "Ronnie always complains that when I go places and come back I never tell him anything--that he has to hear it from other people...