Word: modishly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Obviously the inconvenience of recreating old monuments in the theatre had bedeviled the set designer who had opted for a collage of old transistors and fence wiring. It's all avant-garde, you see, and dreadfully modish. I must admit, I marvelled at the array of newspaper clippings on the floor, and was in the middle of reading one particular item--about the demise of the pet hamster--when my escort forcibly removed me into our seats, muttering about the shame...
...America today, according to Kimball, "every special interest--women's studies, Black studies, gay studies and the like--and every modish interpretive gambit--deconstruction, poststructuralism, new historicism, and other varieties of... `Left Eclecticism'--has found a welcome roost in the academy, while the traditional curriculum and modes of intellectual inquiry are excoriated as sexist, racist, or just plain reactionary...
...crotch-length strapless tweed dress topped by a blazer. Even in the permissive world of journalism, where am I going to wear this number? To interview the Secretary of State? I understand fashion's need for the new, but it gets less and less possible to find something modish I can actually wear...
...more: next year the company will launch Allure, a beauty magazine aimed, says editor Linda Wells, at "women who don't have hours to spend lounging around in the tub." Newhouse is equally willing to have competing titles for men. After paying a reported $2 million for Details, a modish magazine centered on Manhattan's avant-garde downtown club life, he visited the magazine's offices in February to explain that he was repositioning it as a fashion-oriented monthly for younger males, possibly a good description of GQ, which Conde Nast already publishes...