Word: pattern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some of Foreign same curious feeling of hope affects other areas of crisis. Foreign policy experts believe that the leadership decline in Moscow may put the Soviets in a holding pattern as they sort out who is going to be in charge. That could be to our advantage. While fearing the volatility of the Falkland crisis, men like Henry Kissinger our a signal to the rest of the world from Britain that there is a "limit to our endurance of defeatism." The Pentagon assessment is that the British can wipe out the Argentine fleet. The diplomatic assessment is that...
Alors, Pierre. The unstructured jacket. An easeful elegance without stricture. Tailoring of a kind thought possible only when done by hand. The layering of fabrics by pattern, texture and color so that clothing takes on for a second the quiet shimmer of a 17th century Japanese print. Surprising combinations of garments-leather pants as part of a suit, a long jacket over foreshortened slacks, a vest worn over a coat-that scramble clichés and conventions into a new and effortless redefinition of style. A functional celebration of fabric. A reshaping of traditional geometry with witty contours, sudden symmetries...
Armani, who reversed the usual career pattern by designing for men before making women's clothes, brought not only his fine eye for fabric but his scrupulous tailoring to the women's line. "My first jackets for women," he confesses, "were in fact men's jackets in women's sizes." Says Stutz: "Taking that snappy, pinched-in-the-right-place Italian men's wear look and translating it into women's clothes was Armani's special contribution. No one had ever done that before...
...pattern was thereby set up which Wills believes finds its culmination in President Reagon's promise to get government off the backs of the American people...
...views the intricate relationships of power among the Central American nations as a kind of kaleidoscope that can be jarred into a new pattern by any major event, like the Guatemalan elections...