Word: stylishly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stylish egocentrics known only as The Actor (Brian Bedford) and The Actress (Maggie Smith) feel that the statute of limitations may be running out on their restively argumentative marriage. They have been married only six months. Apart from being dogged by a creditor (Richard Whelan), the husband has the jitters. He knows that prior to the marriage his wife had had nine liaisons and that each affair lasted exactly six months. Madly in love with her, the husband decides to put his wife's devotion to the test. He will try to seduce her in the guise...
...bill is turning into one of history's great challenges to lobbyists. Almost daily, they swarm through congressional hearing rooms and in the Capitol's corridors, pressing politicians and seeking to shape the proposed legislation to the liking of myriad special interest groups. For Ellen Berman, a stylish Barnard Russian major, it is an 18-hour-a-day job. She is director of the energy policy task force (annual budget: $50,000) of the Consumer Federation of America. Says she: "Lobbying, when you don't have any money, is like bicycling uphill against the wind...
...flowing hairdos, they look like characters from a bacchanal in Byron's own early 19th century London. They rival one another not only in elegance and extravagance but in sheer stamina, for the evening is likely to begin with dinner at a chic restaurant and end with a stylish breakfast at dawn. The revelers are not the bored and idle rich of the land, although tabs run high. The partygoers are high school students who are reviving-and revising-that grand and time-honored institution, the senior prom...
...worst thing I had to face was the day my husband went to prison," says the wife, a pleasant, stylish blonde. "For him, the worst day came when his kids were kicked out of a private Grosse Pointe club...
Dawkins has gotten much too wrapped up in his theories of genetic determinism to admit that cultural and environmental influences also affect behavior. This seems to be stylish these days. Scientists like E. O. Wilson, the author of Sociobiology, and William Shockley, newly elected member of the Academy of Sciences, and their biological explanations are gaining increased respectability...