Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protocol ("Call me Joe-here's what I've got!") to efface even the "Mr." from the way that Americans address one another. All the same, the Carters' interminable "Jimmying" in a White House so recently thought of as Imperial has turned informality into standard policy...
...muses one Saudi Arabian businessman about his country's frenetic pace of development. His comments point to a paradox of swiftly growing importance for the world economy. By many of the standard measures of power, Saudi Arabia should be a weak state. Its population is sparse: only 7.5 million people in a country twice the size of Western Europe. Its army is tiny: a mere 35,000 men. Economically, the country is only in the beginning stages of industrialism. It suffers from what elsewhere would be debilitating inflation (prices are rising about 40% a year), and so many...
...standard bikini has not been neglected. The Italian version below by Anna Club is done up in gold lame, guaranteed to cast a glow even on overcast days. Next to it is Fiorucci's red string bikini, which has attractions of its own. But the new maillots (French for both baby clothes and bathing suits) are something else. Ashore, these clinging one-piece numbers are pinafore-demure. Wetted, they become second skins, as close to the body as sun tan oil. They are also practical. Halston says of his hot-pink strapless model on the next page: "It gives...
...judged by a double standard: you make excuses for repression, cruelty and (reverse) racism in black African states, but you condemn them here. Often true...
...unfettered animal life for man first of all: I demand the utter extinction of all asceticism. If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry, or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals, and therefore miserable men." Thompson's book is not only the standard biography of Morris; it makes us realize, as no other writer has done, how completely admirable a man this Victorian was - how consistent, how honest to himself and others, how inca pable of cruelty or jargon and, above all, how free. Robert Hughes