Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fresh and refreshingly feckless designs of Sybilla, 25, of Madrid, and Dirk Bikkembergs, 29, of Antwerp, have mostly their brio in common. There is no serious risk that anyone would ever get their labels switched. Bikkembergs works out of a small, somewhat dilapidated studio, where he turns out a line of men's clothing that alternates between the sober gray severity of sweatsuit-style knitwear and the giddy excesses of retro-hippie sports clothes. Sybilla, who designs in a "dream house" atelier in Spain's sunny capital, makes mischievous, inventively styled fashions for women that work from no fixed stylistic...
...summed it up when she wrote, "Even if Trump is the truest, most flamboyant child of Mammon yet produced at this waning moment of the 20th century, I like his style." New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger took a graver view: "He has yet to commission a really serious work of architecture. If he has a style, it is flashiness. It's a malady of the age. Trump just represents it the most." Characteristically, Trump responded by sneering that Goldberger was unqualified to judge his buildings because he wore cheap suits...
...judgment of who was at fault -- will probably go forever unfulfilled. After spending nearly 25 months and an estimated $13 million investigating North's role in the illegal diversion of profits from a secret Iranian arms sale to the Nicaraguan contras, Walsh suddenly moved to drop the most serious charges against the former National Security Council staffer. The independent counsel's action made it all but certain that the total dimensions of the scandal will never be aired in court...
...came out the winner? As Washington tries to rally international support for its accusation that Muammar Gaddafi is building a chemical- weapons plant, the incident helps the erratic leader play the underdog. -- The prosecution drops its two biggest charges against Oliver North. -- Washington' s Mayor Marion Barry has some serious problems. So does his city...
Exploring the farfetched concept of "wormholes," serious physicists find themselves discussing time travel -- and even the creation of new universes...