Word: passee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While popular support for the Panthers as a whole has waned-perhaps because there has been less and less to support-support for Seale, Huggins, and other New Haven Panthers arrested for the 1969 kidnapping-torture-murder of Alex Rackley also seems passe.
Director Vincente Minelli once set trends in Hollywood musicals (The Band Wagon, An American in Paris). For On A Clear Day, he puts his star through all that is passe. As an Englishwoman falling on her London derriere, Barbra is camp Joan Greenwood. As the clumsy American who washed her...
Today, all four automakers have still smaller cars on the way to market. Called "subcompacts" for want of a better name, they are designed to compete directly in size and price with Volkswagens, Toyotas and Datsuns-just as the compacts were originally introduced in the 1950s to counter rising sales...
The years passed. The books dutifully appeared, the promise was brilliantly maintained, an assured expectation. But like all crown princes kept waiting too long, Auden suddenly went from being considered promising to being considered a little passe.
Mrs. Nixon paid no attention, and in an unprecedented maneuver hailed by budget-minded women the world over, wore the dress at least twice more in public, instead of handing it over straightaway to the Smithsonian Institution. Miss Treyz explained mildly: "The Nixons are middle-American people who don'...