Word: looking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obvious and now trite example of this is the woman who spends hours putting on her make-up to achieve the natural look, or the woman who gets her hair streaked so that she can appear to have just returned from Bermuda...
...that is the key to pulling off any affectation. You must not look like you're trying to do anything. Use any excuse or alibi--I like it, I think it looks good, it's all that was available, I did it on a dare--but never ever admit to an affectation...
...lesser hands, it might have been called gimmick literature. But there is a high purpose behind Look! Look! Look! (Greenwillow; $12.95). Regularly, a small window is cut out of a page. Peering through it, readers may see the crown on the Statue of Liberty, or the side of a briefcase or a mysterious red eye. The pages that follow reveal the whole photograph and provide some astonishments. The eye turns out to be rose petals. The briefcase is an elephant's tail. The crown is the center of a carousel wheel. Tana Hoban's pictures tell a double story...
Fujitsu will benefit by getting a limited look at IBM's software, which some analysts consider a major concession by the U.S. company. But others see the settlement as an IBM victory. Says Jonathan Fram, a Bear Stearns analyst: "It's a masterstroke by IBM because they got their main rival to admit that it stole from them...
...Heart Study, a major research project that for the past 40 years has been following the cardiac history of residents of Framingham, Mass. "A number of us," says Castelli, "feel we can do a much better job of predicting who is at risk of getting heart disease if we look at the LDL and the HDL together...