Word: striping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earth supposedly keeps one general clock and calendar as it twirls in a universe precisely machined. The minute pulses of quartz vibrating on the wrist imitate the clockwork of the planets. We stripe the globe with time zones. Time is the most predictable of abstractions, a one-directional flow that carries the universe along with its impartial and inexorable wave. The discovery of measurable time is one of the early signs of civilization, like literacy and cosmetics. Time may be mysterious, but it also possesses an admirable objective purity, a sort of narrative genius, like Tolstoy...
Like artists of every stripe, the best historians make their work look easy.Their research may have been long and arduous, but they filter the odor of archival dust and mildew out of the finished product. Also gone are the blind alleys and dead ends, all the large and petty frustrations of scholarship. Few readers mind being spared such details. Yet the tracks that historians cover are sometimes as fascinating as the past they recapture...
Leather also lends itself to fine detailing. Armani's creations for Italy's Mario Valentino print, stripe and weave leather to resurrect a rich Renaissance look. Bill Blass also uses a weave effect on some blouses, and Ralph Lauren has put ruffles on suede in delicate peasant blouses. Says he: "Feathery-light blouses that once were made of cotton can now be done in suede. And it can mix with anything-silk, a sweater, tweeds, linen or cotton." The new leather, made ideally from the South African hair sheep, comes in starbursts of colors: fire-engine...
...military for two years. No exemptions would be granted for any reason other than unfitness to serve and conscientious objector status. And the system of deferments for college students would be wiped out. We realize that in endorsing such a proposal, we join with the reactionaries of every stripe in this nation; we hope, though, to set forth a fresh and progressive justification for the draft as a tool for both military and social reform...
Being of quite a different stripe this year, the Cincinnati Bengals have sprung from last to first in the National Football League's A.F.C. Central, and it all began with the helmets. Men have been shot out of cannons wearing less gaudy headgear, but there is more to these new helmets than a profusion of tiger stripes...