Word: suits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ugly, so splotched with color, that he left it hanging in his room for a week. But people loved it, people who'd never looked at him twice, except in dismay. So he is meekly agreeable when Henderson puts him in a midnight blue Giorgio Armani suit with tone-on- tone striping. "To me, that's a front-of-the-room look," she declares...
...then Los Angeles and Chicago. Said one school official: "It was overreaction and silliness carried to the point of stupidity." Kenneth W. Kizer, director of the California department of health services, said the panic was creating a "toxic bogeyman." Still, a number of school systems across the country followed suit. Signs were posted above produce bins coast to coast pointing out the Alar-free apples. Makers of products like apple juice, a staple of the preschool diet, sent out releases saying their brands were safe. Washington State, which grows 50% of the nation's apples, faces huge economic losses...
...ills the flesh is heir to, terrorism can strike very close to home. But in less affluent, less cushioned societies, people are beset by risks all the time, much worse than anything that most Americans must contend with, and life does not grind to a halt. Unless Americans follow suit, they risk becoming a society that imitates T.S. Eliot's aging, fearful hero J. Alfred Prufrock: they would not dare to eat a peach...
Stipe, the band's front man and most prominent idiosyncrat, writes and performs as if he and irony were locked in a perpetual thumb wrassling match. Onstage, he will show up in an organza suit designed by Adelle Lutz, which, turning transparent under the stage lights, is obviously meant to summon visions of the oversize whites in which Lutz's husband David Byrne cavorted through Stop Making Sense. Stipe (the name rhymes with the slender-billed bird that good ole boys send gullible slickers out to hunt) devotes himself to his eccentricities, currycombing them until they gleam like attributes...
...Hans-and-Franz brothers appears on late night television in a pumped up muscle suit and tells you in an Arnold Schwarzenneger-like accent that "You look to me a little bit like cottage cheese. You better go out and get yourself some muscle...