Word: stirrup
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...invention of the stirrup--enabling armored knights to fight on horseback--changed history. The modem has done much the same thing. It has supplied millions with a weapon that allows them to fire instantaneous opinions through the air like tracer bullets and thus engage in daily cultural warfare on a scale never seen before in history...
...formula, and store racks are groaning with DKNY wannabes. "I call our rivals the Pac-Men," says DKNY's president, Denise Seegal. "They're all coming after us." This fall saw the launch of Company, a division of Ellen Tracy, whose best sellers include $145 velour tunics and $255 stirrup pants, and of Anne Klein's A Line, which sold a passel of Lycra-blend stretch pants ($215) and double-breasted blazers...
Charlie R. Marchese '85, member of the men's varsity baseball team and last year's All-Ivy first team, tells of the time two years ago the field house packed not-very-stretchy stirrup socks in the bags of some players for their trip to Florida...
Allard and Martelli will also see action in the outfield, and both earned their stirrup socks with honor there last season. Allard, who started in left for most of the early going a year ago, made a game-saving, sliding catch on the way to an errorless campaign...
...diplomatic policies, in fact had a lot less to do with the Sadat visit than William Randolph Hearst's newspapers had to do with the Spanish-American War. No doubt its technology has changed society; technology often does. It has been argued that the developing use of the stirrup, which enabled a rider to carry a lance, created the system of land payments to knights and hence created the entire system of feudalism. Television can draw the world into a single experience - a moon shot, an assassination. McLuhan himself takes a benign view of the televised Sadat visit. "That...