Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...customers at the shopping mall on Santa Monica Boulevard that evening scarcely noticed the newcomer in a tuxedo who had joined them in line at the flower stalls. Neither the young lady in the decal-covered bomber jacket nor the young gentleman with the sheepskin vest over his T shirt and the pith helmet saw any reason to fuss over someone evidently doin' his thing in a tuxedo costume. No, what turned their heads was the new arrival's inquiry...
...what made him feel like a retrograde stuffed shirt was less lethal but daunting things. Cacophonies of competing phone companies, and car and poolside cellulars, have not yet proliferated in Paris. It is in California, not the Dordogne, where your teenager phones you and then puts you on hold. Similarly, Europeans remember when their films were the risque ones. Hah! Now . the show is on the other foot. Europeans at the TV children's hour would be aghast at the torrent of video violence, the Tampax-machine gags on Murphy Brown, or the 27 -- count 'em -- condom jokes...
...Veterans of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, they came through an exchange that has also taken some 50 American Viet Nam veterans to the Soviet Union. The program has achieved profound communions between men who thought of themselves as enemies. In Moscow, after a Soviet vet ripped open his shirt to reveal a wound caused by a U.S. machine gun, a Viet Nam veteran displayed a leg wound inflicted by a Soviet-made mine. Suddenly, the strangers sensed, as American Larry Oswald put it, that they were "in many ways brothers." Said Soviet veteran Sasha Karpenko: "We feel ourselves part...
...class and rural backgrounds. But government critics contend that the squads include convicted criminals released early from jail in exchange for signing up. Members of the Panama Defense Force also reportedly belong; opposition politicians say they have photographs of one man changing from his army fatigues into a Dignity shirt. And diplomats in Panama City insist they have proof that the Battalion member who clubbed vice- presidential candidate Guillermo Ford last week is a sergeant...
...again, singling out one of the oldest and most venerable names in U.S. advertising. In an unwelcome bid, the Briton proposed to pay $730 million to acquire the Ogilvy Group, which owns Ogilvy & Mather, the fifth largest U.S. advertising firm. The agency, which created the Man in the Hathaway Shirt campaign and today's sleek celebrity ads for American Express, has been independent since it was founded in 1948. If Sorrell were to succeed in taking over Ogilvy, his combined empire (estimated annual billings: $13.5 billion) would rank a close second to Britain's Saatchi & Saatchi, the world's largest...