Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Trend setters Comfortable with the opposite sex and partial to high fashion, the ranking socialities insist on an appearance of casualness while they grind it out just like the rest of them. They shake hands and peck cheeks with studied grace. Sometimes sleep together, and always talk about it within earshot of their elders...
THERE is startling and fierce efficiency in the way upper-middle class adolescents intents socially Throw 30 of them together sometime in the morning, and by lunch they will have aligned themselves in farm groups from the trend setters to the sleep. They all worry about "their records high school not criminal and each June some 800 do something about it, they show up for the Harvard Summer Session...
...arid Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, still quicken the viewer's heartbeat. There had been nothing like it before, nor was there to be anything like it during that decade, not even in avant-garde Europe, where Mies van der Robe's pristinely trend-setting steel-and-glass Tugendhat House in Brno, Czechoslovakia, was completed a year later...
Many civilian scientists find the trend disturbing. Says one: "Some of my colleagues are absolutely paranoid about the Pentagon." These concerns increased last April when J.P.L.'s esteemed civilian director, Geologist Bruce Murray, 50, announced he was stepping down after six years to return to teaching, writing and research. Said he: "I believe in a personal and an institutional renewal...
Last week Caltech, J.P.L.'s parent institution, which operates under contract with NASA, announced Murray's successor: former Air Force Chief of Staff General Lew Allen Jr., 56. The appointment continues a trend to garb the U.S. space program in Air Force blue. Earlier this year Air Force Major General James Abrahamson was put in charge of the shuttle. Former Air Force Secretary Hans Mark is NASA'S deputy administrator, the agency's No. 2 job. And the shuttle wears symbolic wings; through fiscal 1985, a fourth of its missions will be for the Air Force...