Word: staid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Also, as the avant-garde cognoscenti are well aware, Seattle in recent years has been in the forefront of many important cultural trends only later taken up by the staid and complacent Brahmins of the Eastern seaboard. Slackers and grunge, to name but two. Whatever they are, exactly...
Thanks to Miuccia, the Milan-based house of Prada has gone from being a staid leather-goods firm to just about the most prized name in the apparel business. There are no clearance sales of Prada clothes; they can be hard to find at full price. The firm, run by Miuccia and her entrepreneur husband Patrizio Bertelli, has been cautious about expansion, but in the next year new outlets will be popping up--Atlanta; Costa Mesa, California; and the Bal Harbour district of Miami. The house now receives the ultimate accolade: it is widely copied. Several outfits in Calvin Klein...
Unlike in previous seasons, however, when the Crimson waited until a more staid hour to drop the puck for the first time, Harvard plans to make an early statement about the season to the Ivy League and--more importantly--to its fans...
...Even staid Harvard got in on the act. Students milled around the festival, strolling between the fair's seven stages to hear gospel, reggae, hip hop and salsa...
...JANE AUSTEN gay? This question, posed by the normally staid London Review of Books, was the headline for an essay by Stanford professor Terry Castle that subtly explored the "unconscious homoerotic dimension" of Austen's letters to her sister Cassandra. The implication has caused quite a kerfuffle among Austenites. "I think it's about as likely that Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man," was one of the more temperate responses. Says Castle, miffed: "For the readers of the LRB, I didn't really expect this to be such a stunning revelation...