Word: maximalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...afternoon seminar Nixon offered aspiring writers advice. New writers tend to overarticulate their characters rather than have them reveal themselves by action, she said. The old theater maxim "play it, don't say it," always applies, she added...
...years ago, he somberly warned his people that "the penetration of bourgeois ideas is inevitable." Sure enough, leggy beauties now glide along sleek runways in Peking modeling the latest Pierre Cardin fashions. Not far away, well-heeled tourists tuck into French cuisine at Cardin's elegant new Maxim's de Pékin. Even in rustic glades, jeans-clad teen-agers blast out punk rock from ubiquitous cassette players. Free enterprise has also brought in its wake less innocent forms of freedom. Earlier this year, Story, a tabloid filled with titillating tales of concubines and libertines, was attracting...
Here the panoply ranges from cottage-plain to Maxim's-fancy, blue-jeans casual to black-tie serious. A brunch solution is smoked haddock pate with gingered tomato relish. For a hot-weather surprise, there is a chicken in lemon aspic; for a winter warmer, a classic French country pate. There are individual hot pates in pastry, one made with crab, another with carrots, and a tricolor fish terrine. Since most main-course pátés are served cold, they demand a reordering of menus, which Cutler does imaginatively. Indeed, the supporting dishes she suggests are often...
...time, would be the argument of some feminists that pornography incites contempt for women and thereby encourages men to exploit and abuse them, as Paul Snider did Dorothy. The correlation (and presumed casual relationship) between media representation of women and their mistreatment has been a prevailing feminist maxim for so long that it has assumed the aura of fact in some circles. Since the '60s there has been an open and often heated debate between people who are fearful of the deleterious effects of erotica and pornography on society and those who are more concerned about the dangers of censorship...
...champagne flowed to strains of Vivaldi. Waiters in white tie and tails ministered to elegant patrons seated in rich red velvet banquettes. Behind them, murals of buxom nudes tiptoed into postimpressionist waters. An evening at Maxim's, of course. But this was not Paris. It was, of all bourgeois things, Maxim's de Pekin, which opened last week in China's capital, one of several copies of the Parisian restaurant now owned by Designer Pierre Cardin, 61. Before East could meet West, 15 Chinese spent months learning the art and preparation of haute cuisine in Paris...