Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But amid the euphoria, there were reminders of the political changes and uncertainty still sweeping through East Germany, which began carving passages through the 29-mile-long Berlin Wall on Friday.
On West Berlin's fashionable Kurfuerstendamm avenue, about 1,000 leftists marched through the streets shouting slogans against German reunification.
Americans and Germans alike remember well the day in 1963 when a visiting U.S. President, John Kennedy, gave voice to his feelings about the two-year- old Wall that ran like a jagged scar through Berlin: "Ich bin ein Berliner." His message was more than a metaphoric statement of solidarity...
In recent years, American designers and manufacturers have rushed to cash in on Amekaji. Designers like Ralph Lauren prospered during the upscale preppie fad, or toraddo-bumu, but interest in the traditional look has recently faltered -- though it will never die out because of the Japanese partiality for neat and...
It's not difficult to understand why things American are close to the center of young Japanese dreams. "America is equated with freedom, openness, wide spaces," says Hikaru Hayashi, senior research director of Hakuhodo Institute of Life & Living, a research arm of one of Japan's largest advertising companies. "Sharing...