Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official symbol of the Games) to pajamas and key chains. Because of the possible U.S. boycott, many retail stores have stopped ordering the souvenirs, and production has halted on some items. For example, US Americans, a firm based in Los Angeles, is stuck with an order of 15.5 million plain drinking glasses; until the boycott issue is resolved, the company does not dare follow through on plans to imprint the Moscow Games insignia on them. Groused Blum: "The sales being blown away are between $50 million and $100 million. Premium promotions are hurting because companies don't want...
...weighs 151 Ibs., stands 5 ft. 9½ in. Plain, muted suits and ties enhance his slenderness. Yet when he talks these days he seems bigger. His principal concern is world peace. His thoughts must embrace the entire globe. For three years he used to rush back from every excursion into Big Power and drop out with town meetings and backyard picnics. He cannot do that today. Events are on the march, and either he plays the central role or no one does. Soviet intentions must be redefined, free-world interests stated, and American power positioned to provide political unity...
Still, the Administration pressed its efforts to let its fury over the Afghanistan invasion be plain for Moscow to see. Carter told a group of Congressmen that the Soviet attack was "the greatest threat to peace since the second World...
...show is rich in souvenirs and epigrams of the modernist imagination, S�rusier's little Talisman of 1888, for instance, with its plain flat patches of color that demonstrated so vividly to Denis and Bonnard that art should not be mere representation, but rather "a transposition, a caricature, the passionate equivalent of an experienced sensation"; or the 1890 self-portrait by Edouard Vuillard, done in brilliant polemical slabs of nonnaturalist color. But it is to the great paintings at the center of the exhibition that one returns, those hinges upon which art swung from the 19th century into the 20th...
After ten years, it has become a capital custom: the turn-of-the-year list of what's In and what's Out, compiled by Washington Post Fashion Editor Nina S. Hyde. Among this year's Ins: plain white sheets, Mickey Mouse, new rock, Judith Krantz, squash, grapefruit juice, Jessica Savitch, bright pink lipstick, Oxford shirts, marriage, Paddington Bear, diaphragms, Ansel Adams, cone-heel shoes, Meryl Streep, cotton undies, gay waiters, wood-burning stoves, Bruce Springsteen and brown eye shadow. Out: living together, Billy Joel, disco, blue eye shadow, Elvis Costello, the Pill, basketball, Diane Keaton, stiletto...