Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti--Mobs rioted, buildings were burned and Jean-Claude Duvalier, president-for-life, imposed a state of siege yesterday and told the people of his impoverished land that he was in control, "firm as a monkey's tail...
...Thursday--"Yale Mary", Jean-Luc Godard's controversial sequel to last year's hit "Hail Mary" opens amid virulent protest at the Orson Welles Theatre. The film, featuring Eli Jodie Foster as an undergraduate English major and part-time mother of God, is condemned by President Bok as "flagrant Yale propaganda." Bok adds, "Besides, Princeton is the only Ivy school that can boast a celebrated virgin...
...likely candidacy, and his staffers seemed almost certain that he would run. But the old scandals and family problems were certain to be raised anew: just this fall, a widely publicized book about his former wife Joan had criticized Kennedy as an unfeeling husband. Kennedy's sister Jean Smith, whose advice he highly regards, advised against another race. Politicians he consulted around the country were friendly but unreassuring. A final and perhaps paramount factor: in 1988 the Senator would be up for re- election to the seat he has held since...
...often the hardest kind of criticism to do convincingly. But there is something of the fashion dictator in her as well. Armani is described with appropriate accuracy and awe, but he is the only Milanese included. Ignored as well are whole ranks of French headliners, including Claude Montana and Jean-Paul Gaultier, and the British radical Vivienne Westwood, a perennial darling of the fashion press...
...several incarnations in many languages, but Art Historian Jean-Paul Bouillon presents the movement under its best-known name in Art Nouveau (Rizzoli; 247 pages; $60). Some 350 illustrations, 125 of them in color, trace its genealogy from the 1870s to the outbreak of World War I, a journey that manages to bridge 19th century formalism and Bauhaus severity. Although Tiffany's lamps and Gaudi's facades are archetypal examples of art nouveau, the author widens artistic horizons, and readers' eyes, by demonstrating that fine artists from Whistler to Picasso were influenced by its rhythmic, serpentine style...