Word: golden
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...backs. Rap is also a worldwide fashion commodity. Local variations of the basic American street outfit -- baggy pants, pricey sneakers, hooded sweatshirts, flashes of jewelry -- turn up everywhere, from dance clubs to fashion layouts. Yves Saint Laurent produces golden belt buckles with his logo writ large, Public Enemy-style, and Karl Lagerfeld loads his Chanel models with enough baubles to sink M.C. Hammer into the ground like a stake. Spike's Joint in Tokyo (yes, that Spike) supplies Japanese trendies with film-related merchandise, from team jackets ($794) to the official Malcolm X baseball cap ($39) -- the one indispensable part...
Senior Tom Kirchoff, who has started every game since his sophomore year, has been the focus of Russo's attack. Kirchoff, who is one of 12 finalists for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm award (a list which includes Notre Dame's Rick Mirer and Miami's Gino Toretta), has already picked up 1143 yards passing in five games, completing 93 of 151 including six interceptions...
Many forecasters seem to succumb to either excessive optimism or overheated pessimism. The overoptimists are heirs to the Golden Age of wishful thinking in the 19th century, when conventional wisdom foresaw ever greater prosperity and ease. Jules Verne invented science fiction in the 1860s with his tales of space flight and submarine voyage, and the American Edward Bellamy, in his widely read 1888 novel Looking Backward, imagined Boston around the year 2000 as a genteel Utopia where everyone enjoys equal pay and crime has all but disappeared...
...endure together the vicissitudes of many decades, but Dychtwald believes such couples will be rare. Once society has lost most of its taboos against divorce, it will take unusual commitment, flexibility and loyalty (perhaps fortified by a religious vow) to stick it out. Couples who endure to celebrate their golden anniversaries "will have mastered marriage," says Dychtwald. "It will be like mastering the violin or the cello...
...particularly true of women, both because they live longer than men and because they are less likely to remarry. Women will adapt by developing new types of relationships: dating younger men, seeing more males in platonic friendships and living together in groups with other women, not unlike the Golden Girls model. Computer and videophone dating services will help with matchmaking far more than they do today...