Word: fountain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TAKAYUKI MORI, 31, has a more cerebral approach to design. His Tokyo show was a presentation in his elegant shop, where the floor is covered in smooth white pebbles and a fountain bubbles up quietly as if from some deep Zen wellspring. Mannequins were hung with virtuoso variations of dresses and skirts cut from polyester satin and jersey, colored pale red, musky gold and worn white, in a pattern transferred directly from photos of rusted iron. "I'm neither anti-Western nor pro-Eastern," Mori explains. "I'm interested in making clothes that bring out the originality of the individual...
Instead of admitting to his little outburst of normality, Reagan and his staff sought to maintain his superhuman status. Just as he tries to fool the country with fountain-of-youth hair color and make-up, the 75-year-old chief set out to snow the public by denying he had ever uttered the phrase...
...never discarded the totems of a happily trashy youth: prom dress, beehive hairdo and the Association crooning Cherish. But there is enough sweet irony in her voice to suggest that she has looked into the face of her teenage pal Andie (Molly Ringwald) and seen just why the Fountain of Youth is laced with citric acid. Teenhood is the pits. Faces are constantly aflush with anger, ardor, embarrassment. Anguish over dates and grades streaks the first application of mascara. Clique rivalries make the Iran-Iraq war seem congenial by comparison. Emotions newly discovered are unique and convulsive. She loves...
Toad found himself seduced, in love, scribbling away in the transports of a new passion. Toad was always a fanatic, of course, an absolutist. He bought the fanciest fountain pen. His word processor went first into a corner, then into a closet with...
...gravity. He proposed that "ether," an invisible theoretical substance that at the time was believed to pervade space, exerted drag on the nucleus, slowing it down. After observing flares streaming from Comet Halley's surface in 1836, another German astronomer, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, conceived a more plausible concept, the fountain theory. Bessel proposed that a comet was a loose clump of particles. He suggested the flares were fountains of these motes erupting from its nucleus and that they acted as a brake. Bessel's work was largely ignored at the time, but it turned out to be at least partially...