Word: modish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...independent survey, is a male college graduate between 25 and 34 who earns $33,000 in a managerial or professional job. In addition to fiction and some semiserious journalism, the magazine provides advice on trendy places to live (Santa Fe, for women and scenery), chic collectibles (signed handcrafted furniture), modish cookery and backpacking...
...friends were often famous, like Dorothy Thompson and Clare Boothe Luce. As she recalls life with the smart set, Hobson falls into a modish, woman's magazine tone in which even problems sound like boons. In 1942 her idea of dire indebtedness was owing rent to the Vincent Astor offices for her East Side apartment and a clothing tab to Bergdorf s. For all her social concern, political events are sometimes invoked as if they were backdrops for her personal dramas, as in a rendezvous with Ingersoll: "When he arrived, my rehearsed words went out the window...
...where the Middle Ages are less modish than in Europe, the book's popularity depends on how much medieval esoterica readers are willing to slog through to reach the heart of the story. For Eco's novel, fluidly translated by William Weaver, is not only an entertaining narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327. It is also a chronicle of the 14th century's religious wars, a history of monastic orders and a compendium of heretical movements. All of this is recounted in the language of theological disputation, Scholastic discourse and-caveat lector-Latin...
...civil liberties committee." He was in Spain helping the organized opposition to Francisco Franco, he was in Southwest Africa investigating conditions, smuggling out anti-apartheid tape recordings, and gathering evidence of oppression to present to the U.N. he was in Mississippi, long before the civil rights movement became modish, organizing the Freedom Summer and Freedom Vote in 1964 to protest racial discrimination...
...show his new fall women's line during the semiannual glitz and giddiness known loosely as the Milan collections, he incurred the wrath of the press but walked off with the honors anyway. "Armani is the king of the Italian Alps," says Geraldine Stutz, president of the modish New York City department store Henri Bendel. The assorted princesses, princelings and pretenders scattered about the feudal fashion kingdom of Milan sent their models gadding down runways in all the latest but did not succeed in dislodging the king. Gianni Versace, Armani's keenest competitor, took up the historical theme...