Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DEAR Miss MANNERS: . . . Please help...
...arbiters of etiquette learns quickly that behavior experts are not easily topped. Washington Correspondent Carolyn Lesh, one member of the TIME team that reported this week's cover story on the revival of interest in proper behavior, accompanied Judith Martin on a promotion tour for her new book, Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children. "She has excruciatingly correct manners," says Lesh, "but once, when we were in a store and a clerk mumbled, Martin responded with a 'What?' Later I asked 'Shouldn't you have said, Pardon me?' " No way, said Martin...
Lesh discovered that Miss Manners' fabled aplomb is bolstered by a ready wit. "Lost in a taxi in a seedy Chicago neighborhood on a Sunday night," Lesh recounts, "we were startled when an egg suddenly splattered on the windshield. Said Martin: 'It couldn't have been for me. I ordered bacon...
...this reasonably typical confusion in the contemporary lifestyle, Judith Martin, 46, the inventor and sole proprietor of the magnificently omniscient syndicated persona called Miss Manners, offers a brisk answer: "The ideal social relationship, since you ask, would be one big happy family, all gathered together at Thanksgiving to enjoy this interesting and varied network of relationships." But since that is highly unlikely, Miss Manners urges that "tolerance and kindness should be summoned, at least to those who are nonvoluntary participants in the relationship, the legal wife and all the children...
...look like space suits for space cases and the heavy sweaters with turtlenecks and bare backs. You might wonder whether the clothes are a deliberate joke, or if, when wearing them, one becomes a punch line. But a word of caution. Don't laugh so hard that you miss either the talent behind these clothes or the spirit with which they are made, the ebullience, the cunning shunning of convention that exalts fashion even as it seems to mangle it. And consider a revision to the classic Rolling Stones refrain: "It's only rock 'n' roll...