Word: generousity
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...machines, TV sets. Some of the controls have been progressively loosened. In 1982 Peking stopped dictating all garment styles and freed the city's factories to adopt their own designs. Result: though perhaps 80% of any randomly assorted crowd are still dressed in baggy Mao suits, there is a generous sprinkling of blue jeans, Western-style business suits and coats, skirts and knee-high leather boots...
...life soap opera. They were selected in 1963 for a TV documentary called 7 Up and have sat for state-of-their-lives portraits in 1970, 1977 and 1984, all supervised by Michael Apted (director of Coal Miner's Daughter and Gorky Park). The latest installment, 28 Up, includes generous excerpts from the three previous reports. Flipping through the dozen lives as through a family album or social worker's casebook, we find a fascinating and poignant group picture of a nation with the juice squeezed...
Indulge yourself. Experience unparalleled pleasure in the form of two Ivy League blondes. Generous gentlemen only...
...which appeared last fall in the now defunct Providence Eagle, attracted the attention of a number of not necessarily generous gentlemen in the Providence police force. They had been tipped off by officials of Brown University that some female students were possibly being coerced into performing sex for money. Last week, after a five-month undercover investigation, the police announced two arrests that not only cracked the case but stunned the Brown community, including the administration, alumni and parents...
...more than a decade of careful thought about chairs--not just how they ought to look, but how officeworkers lean and squirm and relax while sitting in them. Stumpf's Ergon (1976) and Equa (1984) are the two most important chairs, surely, of the past quarter-century, handsome, generous and deeply elegant. They are also ubiquitous: the Herman Miller company has sold nearly 2 million Ergons and, in less than two years, some 350,000 Equas...