Word: passee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rollerblade is actually a brand name that has, Kleenex-style, become synonymous with the type of product itself. Those in the know call the contraptions "in-line skates" to distinguish them from their passe cousins, roller skates.
Yet VEP is now going out of business, even though its mission is far from complete: 4 million eligible Southern blacks are still not registered. Last December the big white-controlled foundations that have funded vep for the past 30 years ceased their support. Brown, the organization's director since...
In the age of Robert Bly and the men's movement, macho grafitti displays may seem passe. Where's all the writing from the new, sensitive males? Not in Harvard bathrooms, evidently, where men tend to discuss sex and sexuality with violent overtones.
The secret of the success of the Nike corporation, which began to make its famous footwear in 1971 and grew from an unknown also-ran in the shoe business to the universally familiar $3 billion institution of today, is that it understood that sneakers embodied the values of the people...
Readings have caught on with a young and racially diverse set that sees poetry clubs as an attractive way to meet people now that the disco scene is passe. "Before, the scene was centered around doing coke or pot in your house with your friends or going out to a...