Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gushily sentimental, fatuous, vulgar, idiotic, by advocating dressing up in colonial attire, getting sloppy guzzling old colonial grog in reconstructed 1776-style inns, rapturizing over the usual glamour figures and their myths. Even Jefferson on your cover would blush in his reluctance to be so glamorized...
...youths who are terrorizing the cities often belong to gangs, but gone are the old-style rumbles with switchblade knives and zip guns (see box page 12). Even criminals are frightened to work the streets in big-city areas. "I myself walk light when I'm in the ghetto," says...
...stressed that voters in Western Europe tend to cross lines in regional contests as a means of registering protests, much as American voters do in primaries. Europeans were more sanguine than the U.S. about the respectability and acceptability of Italian Communists. Some British politicians even suggested that a Tito-style Communist Party in Italy would be more of an embarrassment than an asset to the Kremlin...
Some of the enlisted men are still barracked in cramped, 20-year-old, dormitory-style metal quonset huts. But there are growing numbers of new three-story "super hooches," which bunk only three men to a room. BOQS, or Bachelor Officer Quarters, bear whimsical names like "Teahouse of the Anxious Moose"-moose being a corruption of the Japanese musume or girl. A recreation center has been developed to accompany the "spartan training" facility on Cheju Island, off the southern coast of South Korea; it offers sailing, scuba diving and duck and pheasant shooting. The division has even sponsored occasional...
...painted but wallpapered. His situations continue to bear traces of two Keatons. In this case, Buster is the right source; Diane is not. Allen's longtime companion is saddled with Lines that make her Groucho in bombazine ("Thank you, your grubbiness"). Because she cannot generate a style of her own, Keaton soon draws attention to the film maker's weakness: his movies, populated solely with Woody Allens, are like Walt Disney's old Goofy cartoons, in which every character assumed the lineaments of the hero...