Word: herd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...approximately as accurate as a police composite ("The average customer will never understand that," said Kaplan, dismissing one particularly intricate Ferré blouse), the buyers run through the racks of clothes. If it can be said to exist at all, fashion sense is an amalgam of taste, whim, herd instinct and anxiety. Buying clothes for a store may not be a weighty responsibility, but it is a significant one. By determining what parts of a collection are bought, and in what quantity, the buyer affects not only the fortunes of a designer's company but also the public perception...
...Nussbaum), an aging nebbish trudging on the treadmill of anxiety; Moss (James Tolkan), bullet-headed and bull-tempered; and Levene (Robert Prosky), a salesman on a long losing streak, who can beam like a bishop at good news and just as quickly turn to wheedling for his job. Running herd on these macho individualists is the consummate organization man, Williamson (J.T. Walsh). What is this, an MTM sitcom gone bilious? No, more like The Front Page staged in the lower depths...
...herd finds it/and very solemnly/in...
There were products to help people manage a herd of cattle, plan a diet, plot an airline route, schedule a tooth extraction. A California firm called Psycomp even offered packages that promise relief from stress, depression, rocky relationships and sexual inadequacy. There were naturally lots of games like Mr. Robot and His Robot Factory...
Once or twice a week, the crews unlash their towboats from the paralyzed herd of barges and bull through the ice into Keokuk (pop. 13,940). There they pick up cigarettes, toiletries, groceries, drinking water and mail, and make calls from the outdoor pay phone near the lockmaster's office. The rawboned Driver town is hardly humming (KEOKUK, HOME OF LORI FROELING, MISS IOWA 1979, brags its welcome sign), but the residents are friendly, and alcohol, strictly forbidden on the boats, is amply available. John and Donna Coffield invited several of the stranded bargemen into their home for Christmas...