Word: precious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attention to surface detail is almost excessive. Glass panes are sandblasted and etched with miniature geometric murals. When Holl has room to move around (for example, in his designs for a retail and residential building, as yet unbuilt, at Florida's Seaside), his work seems sublime rather than precious or cramped...
...union-busting is needed to reach this goal, then so be it. But reporters are easier game then pressmen. All a publisher has to do is encourage in the poor saps the belief that they are working for something far more precious than money: The Truth...
Consider the notions of individual rights that lay behind American's being presumed innocent until proven guilty. Interestingly, Ronald Reagan, who often gets misty-eyed when the topic turns to the precious liberties Americans enjoy, does not think that this peculiarly American values is worth preserving in the battle against drugs...
Jewelry was also a popular item at the fest, as pedestrians were tempted with samples of silver earrings from Mexico, bracelets from Bali, silver trinkets from India and Afghanistan, and semi-precious stones from Taiwan...
...once stuck in the '50s, she loves releasing the adolescent enthusiasm that has been stifled in her mid-life soul. Every mundane moment is suddenly precious: breakfast with her parents and kid sister, singing "My Country 'Tis of Thee" in homeroom, catching Dick Clark on the old American Bandstand ("That man never ages!"). She dotes on her angora sweaters and her Iron- Maidenform bras, her mom's Rice Krispies cookies and tremulous advice ("Peggy, you know what a penis is -- stay away from it!"). She enjoys vamping Michael the beatnik, sharing a joint in a moonlit meadow as he howls...