Word: garb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's long-awaited "galaxy premiere" of Captain EO was kicked off with typical Disney glitz. Skyrockets and a thousand Mylar balloons crowded the air. A dozen chorus boys and girls in spandex and spangles boogied decorously. Mickey and Minnie Mouse arrived in matching silver-and-rainbow Captain EO garb. The film's opening will also be celebrated in a one-hour NBC special this Saturday. All the hoopla underscored the magnitude of the gamble by Disney and Eastman Kodak, which split the movie's costs. At $20 million or so for the film and its laser effects, Captain...
...highly tendentious article, "Radicals in Conservative Garb" (ESSAY, Aug. 11), Ezra Bowen has wrenched quotations from context and twisted history to attack the importance I have attributed to recovering a jurisprudence of original constitutional meaning. In so doing, TIME has overlooked the central issue -- whether a judge or Justice should interpret the Constitution according to its text, structure and history, or may a judge or Justice set these aside in order to effect his own vision of the good society. The debate is not one of strict vs. loose construction; it is a debate over interpretation vs. noninterpretation. Your article...
Lauren positions his clothing in a lucrative middle ground of consumer sensibility. He lures customers who think high-fashion styling is too faddish and traditional business garb is not quite sporty enough. His Polo purchasers are typically professionals and other upscalers who feel they have more important things to follow than fashion trends. Lauren loyalists sing of simple virtues: comfy elegance, durability, the avoidance of visual shock. They know they can depend on Lauren for a certain smart sameness, a look at once sporty and restrained. "No one understands his customer as truly as Ralph does," says Donna Karan, another...
...huddles for most of the day with fashion assistants and corporate colleagues, at one moment expostulating before a trio of dark-suited subordinates and the next pondering an advertising display among a group of young designers clad in a palette of pale blue variations on his own favorite garb. Lauren pays his employees well and rewards loyalty, but he can be a blunt taskmaster. "He is absolutely terrible about hiding his feelings," says Buffy Birrittella, Polo/Ralph Lauren's vice president for advertising and communications. In an industry notorious for its creative egos, Lauren has long enjoyed a reputation for relative...
Gorman's artwork mostly depicts Navajo women clad in robes or traditional garb. His work is particularly well known in the South-west...