Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...able to design things and try things and see if they would work, and it was a lot of fun," says Andrew P. Tobias '68, who was student president in his senior year. Tobias, who is now an author, was responsible for the initial success of the Let's Go travel guide series, which is designed for travelers with small budgets...
...with white teeth and big smiles--but they were never women. After I realized this I began to doubt whether I wanted to be a politician and, more importantly, whether I could accomplish what I set out to do. I was scared that my gender could effect my success...
Stankard, a gregarious man, has his Irish ancestors' love of talking, particularly about his success in life, which he views with incredulity. Is it possible, he asks, that a former glassblower can find himself feted by gallery owners and collectors? "I keep thinking I will wake up and it will all be over," he says. "I worry that people will say, 'O.K., you've been goofing off long enough...
There can be adverse reactions to these champagne clothes, and not everyone is hopping aboard Lacroix's bandwagon. His outfits are not for the dress-for- success crowd -- only for those who have succeeded. Then there are the enthusiasts of top ready-to-wear designers like Jean-Paul Gaultier and Claude Montana and several of the Japanese, all intellectual, all looking toward futuristic silhouettes. To them, Lacroix is a crashing irrelevance. Alan Bilzerian, owner of two au courant shops in Massachusetts, who heavily backs the Japanese, writes Lacroix off briskly: "It's like a foul ball; he hit it over...
...anchor for the anti-contra case, a case that is running out of the usual arguments. It was variously said that the contras could not win, had no support and even less legitimacy. Yet after one year of full U.S. funding, they have had considerable success in the field. The Sandinistas find themselves stretched and on the defensive. Most ominously, the internal opposition is talking to the contras about what the Sandinistas fear will be a "united front" of the kind they used to topple Somoza. That, for what until recently was derided as a rump Somocista army, is legitimacy...