Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been "caught short" in minis. Now WWD has the chutzpah to call their midi-clad favorites "fashion victims" because they "allow fashion to wear them rather than wearing the fashion that suits them." Is Women's Wear Daily laughing at its ability to turn women into trend-following sheep? You bet your...
Unlike some rock fans, Gillett also understands that rock, alas, is as much an industry as an art. Today it is easy to forget that back in the early 1950s, a new musical trend had little chance of gathering momentum unless it was supported by a major record company (Columbia, RCA Victor, Decca, Capitol). Shamelessly, the majors scoured the catalogues of small, regional record companies for top-notch rock and roll songs, then rerecorded them in what the trade calls "cover" versions, using their own stars. Shamefully, most of the radio disk jockeys-with exceptions like Freed -obliged...
...increased coordination and relevance of foreign studies which the Center made possible was underlined and dominated by the decisive trend of American foreign policy thinking in the late '50's: unreconstructed cold warriorism. This was the era of Stalinism versus freedom and democracy, of confrontation politics, drawing the line, negotiating from strength. The United States, emerging unscathed as the world's most powerful nation after World War II, could have used its extraordinary might to promote a peaceful detente with a much weakened and brutalized postwar Soviet Union, but chose instead to promote distrust, interventionism, and encirclement...
...companies started the trend for in obvious reason: since they pay the world's highest wages, they have the nost to save by manufacturing offshore. They began by subcontracting work to locally owned firms in Japan and Western Europe, and are still expanding that practice. Ford Motor, for example, has signed up Tokyo Shibaura Electric to make most of the generators that will go into its 1971 models, and is dickering to have another Japanese firm, Dieel Kiki, supply many of the compressors needed in auto air-conditioning systems. Lately a growing number of American firms have gone further...
...beautiful people; trend setters; the In crowd...