Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That, of course, is an overstatement, as is the insistence by European designers that they are not influenced by their American counterparts. Incontrovertibly, the dynamics of American life and the clothes that reflect it have profoundly affected the way people dress around the world. Says Carrie Donovan, senior fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar. "You really saw it last fall in the Paris ready-to-wear collections. They took wonderful stuff from the Army-Navy store, Bermuda shorts, parkas-it was the American way of dressing done with their particular style...
Americans like their popular music to rock and roll, but Jamaicans take their pop songs more seriously. Most of the island's musicians are Rastafarians, members of a sect that believes Jamaica's culture should reflect its people's African roots. What they sing and play is called reggae music-the name comes from the title of a 1968 hit-whose lyrics treat political tensions, social grievances and "black roots" culture. Because an unpopular law or politician can become the subject of a popular song, reggae is a political force that is felt at the government...
Eduard F. Sekler, director of Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, said yesterday that the outcome of the visiting committee report on the Visual and Environmental Studies department (VES) will probably reflect favorably on the department...
...choreography of Godspell embodies the enthusiasm of the newly converted; most dance numbers reflect the influence of gospel rhythms, with hand-clapping and swaying bodies, and the exuberant spontaneity of exercise. The best number, however, is the soft shoe duet "All for the Best", which pits Jesus against Judas (David Alpert) for the first time...
...those minutes (now withdrawn by the embarrassed visiting committee which is still in the process of writing the normal milquetoast pap that passes for governing board oversight) also seem to reflect a consensus on the panel--shared by many GSD faculty and students--that Kilbridge's administration has been a "receivership" and that "Kilbridge cannot provide continued intellectual leadership...