Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doesn't begin with the subject, his family, philosophy, or even a recitation of his favorite food (as did Janet Flanner in a 1936 profile of Adolph Hitler). Rather, Didion begins the piece with a word about her own recollection of Pike's church, and then characteristically proceeds to lace the narrative with what she calls elsewhere, "always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable 'I.'" "The greatest study of Mann is Mann" wrote Janet Flanner in a profile of the Nobel Prize-winning German novelist, and likewise, we may note that an equivalent scheme of interests exists for Joan Didion...
...baton, so that during the slightest lull in conversations in years to come, I could say, "Ahem, during the Moscow Olympics in '80, I want you to know that ... etc., etc." I did some jogging to prepare, getting up to run when the sun came through the lace curtains of my room in the Hotel Ukraine. Summer sunrise is very early in these latitudes, 3:30 a.m. or so, which is a fine and relaxed time to feel a city and watch the building fronts glow as the dawn brightens...
...started out as a trickle from places like Agawam, Mass., Diamond Bar, Calif., and Yardley, Pa. In short order it became a flood from Medford Lakes, N.J., Irvington, N.Y., Arvada, Colo., and all across the nation. Pictures of rosy-cheeked little girls in lace dresses and little boys who looked as though they would much rather be fishing than squirming in a photographer's studio. It is as if hundreds of thousands of American parents all thought that the high point of 1981 would be the moment when they could say to their friends and neighbors...
...Though there are an estimated 3,200 EVs of one kind or another in use today in the U.S., a number of problems remain. Not the least is that the electric car's image is still an ancient sepia-tint photograph, a little mildewed and smelling of old lace. To hot young engineers in Detroit-where the action nowadays is in computerized fuel injection, stratified charge engines and other technologies for saving gasoline-electrics are a scientific diversion. Wall Street's auto-industry analysts reflect that mood. Says Maryann Keller, a vice president of Paine Webber: "We think...
...putting the city under the administration of a professional "city manager," responsible to the city council. The plan also called for a new system of voting designed to insure that minorities within the city would have a voice. "We knew it was a plan by Harvard and the lace curtain ethnics to get control," Vellucci says. "It was under the disguise of clean and honest government, but we knew what the real plot was." And so in the 1938 campaign, embattled opponents of Plan E termed it the work of "Harvard communists," and the city council voted to symbolically "secede...