Word: objet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Freedman of Scarsdale, N.Y., sees the emergence of what she calls fattism, an inclination to associate thinness with prettiness and goodness, and obesity with lassitude and lack of discipline. The way to salvation is, in Barsky's ironic words, a "tanned, trim, taut, toned body" that will be an objet d'art, a masterpiece to be "treasured, meticulously inspected and painstakingly maintained in peak condition." Unfortunately for most Americans, who tend to be groaners and sweaters, that remains an unattainable ideal...
Still, as Antoinette has recounted to Co-Author Thomas Renner, growing up as a Mafia princess was scarcely an elevating experience. Her first taste of the savagery that pervaded Giancana's world came when she knocked over his pet objet, a kitschy female figurine clutching her wind-blown skirt. Giancana's response was to beat his young daughter with his belt...
...discos in the capital--Sahara Lounge, El Bigote, L'Objet--are teeming with partygoers until 4 a.m.; the craftsmen and street peddlers at Plaza Barrios are hungry for foreign cash and are willing to give you up to 375 colones to the dollar instead of the official rate of 250 colones; and the Pacific beaches along Costa Del Sol--with its gnarly surfing at La Libertdad--and Barra de Santiago to the South of San Salvador put Lauderdale and Nauset to shame...
...commission decides on Jan.11 that Boston's objet d 'heart should be saved, the next question will be who should pay for it. The company has said that it does not want to ante up the estimated $50,000 for restoration costs...