Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...candidate is game. As he is nominated this week in Dallas, and then embarks on the final campaign of his 20-year political career, it should again become clear just how deeply he relishes the public flash, the roar of the crowd, the visceral approbation. After the official Labor Day kickoff deep in Reagan's home territory, near Disneyland in ultraconservative Anaheim, Calif., he will be on the road three days a week at first, more later...
Though Telling's income is now elite ($1.4 million last year), his values remain middle class. He buys his dark gray suits from Sears and loves to fling open his jacket to flash the label. In fact, the only part of his wardrobe not from Sears is shoes. Reason: his 13 A size is too rare for his stores to keep in stock. Telling's only ostentation is that he often rides to work from his home in Northbrook, Ill., in a company limousine or sometimes drives himself in a sleek black Jaguar. He defensively points out that...
...that flaunt our individuality, that show off our status, and the rich want to stand out." Having Calvin Klein's name or Gloria Vanderbilt's signature attached to the hind portion of a pair of denims is one way to stand out a little bit, but moniker flash may also be passing away. The Gloria Vanderbilt people, for example, admit guardedly that there has been a sales plunge in their basic jeans model. But as much money as they pulled down for a few seasons, designer jeans were always a joke, just a fussy vamp-usually snug around...
...pushed her handspring high toward the banner-draped rafters. She twisted, turned and landed without having to move so much as a toe to keep her balance. Neither Retton nor Karolyi nor the crowd needed a judge to tell them it was perfect. Without waiting for the 10 to flash, Retton ran to the barricades for a quick embrace with Karolyi, then, strutting the pigeon-toed linebacker's walk that more than anything else reveals her power, she hopped back on the runway to wave to the crowd and shake her fists overhead in triumph. For one long moment...
...cannot tell a feint from a foible or a parry from a riposte. This ignorance is heartbreaking to fencers, who delight in giving ten-minute explanations of the attack, parry, return and continuation, which make up a "fencing conversation," but which, to the untrained eye, are only a millisecond flash of two blades. In America, fencing competitions are incomprehensible to outsiders. "We are a small, poor, truly amateur sport," says Stephen Sobel, secretary of the U.S. Olympic Committee and a saber fencer. "We all know each other, and usually we just keep score on a scrap of paper...