Word: old
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wait-and-see attitude and are limiting supply. "They're really horrible," says one Boston department store manager, "and normally things that don't look good don't last." Body-conscious Californians have yet to be seduced by the latest fashion invasion. Explains one 40-year-old sylph: "I worked really hard to stay looking good, and I'm not going to cover it up with baggies." The jeans have been well received among Chicago high schoolers, but older customers still seem to be too timid to go public with the new look...
...Old Patagonian Express, Theroux...
...long trek from the days of one, two, three, many. It can be taken as a symptom of exuberant joy in the quantity and multiplicity of things. Still, the dizzy acceptance of those truly incomprehensible figures might also be construed as a vicarious variation of the old Faustian game: the yearning to know the unknowable...
...year-old cup is the oldest inter-collegiate rivalry in North America; this year McGill was outmatched by the Harvard team. The Crimson forwards dominated the throw-ins and scrums as Keith Oberg, the hooker, won 85 per cent of the hooks and allowed the scrum to win the ball consistently...
...year-old novelist read from his unpublished memoirs about the Yiddish Writing Club in Poland and from his short story, "The Enemy...