Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought Brooke Shields looked just nifty in her Calvins? Wrong - according to Fashion Designer Mr. Blackwell. The 15-year-old sex symbol's grownup getups earned her first place on Blackwell's annual list of worst-dressed women. "She looks like a Halloween trick without the treat," he sniffs. "Her mother should be totally condemned for this...
...outer shell when heat-dissipating tiles became unglued. At one time or another, the entire project became unglued. Perhaps it was prophetic that the task force proposing the space shuttle back in 1969 was headed by Vice President Spiro Agnew. In any case, Columbia offers in its fashion a symbol not only of the Reagan Administration, but of the U.S. as it rolls into the '80s-way behind schedule, well over budget, its hopes, as ever, riding on machines...
...proposals passing are remote. The small bank vs. big bank issue is still controversial." Nonetheless, modern financial and credit needs in the 1980s appear to be an irresistible force for changing banking's old ways. Citibank's blue, compass-like trademark may yet become as familiar a symbol around the U.S. as McDonald's golden arches...
...decades Vuitton produced only items priced beyond the means of the masses. Beginning in the 1960s, however, the company broadened its offerings to include less expensive backpacks, handbags, wallets, umbrellas, key cases and even dog leashes. All bore the distinctive LV symbol...
...series begins and ends in Paris. The Eiffel Tower (1889), that "static totem of the cult of dynamism," as Host Robert Hughes calls it, is a symbol of the ebullient optimism that ushered in the new age of machine worship. The Beaubourg Center (1977), which looks like a trite and showy illustration from a science fiction magazine, becomes a symbol of the decline of that exhausted era. In between is a terra incognita that we may think we know-the art of the 20th century...