Word: trusted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...couture wardrobe on a single Paris trip." These trans-Atlantic pirates, in the era of fashion news programs like CNN's "Style with Elsa Klensch" became the final guard of a dying industry, and Agins argues that we (you, me and her) looked up to them until our trust was broken. Haute Couture had never resembled the reality of the upper-middle and middle classes; it had been a fantasy. But eventually, the fantasy lost its grip, straying too far into the stratum of Mizrahi-style, wholly unwearable hoopla. This is how fashion died, Agins argues. It choked...
...mind with a tender heart to gain the audience's sympathy, achieving just the right balance of bravado and fragility. Alienated from his son and his own inner-life, Skeffington's whole identity lies within his political campaign--"the greatest show on Earth!"--so when he loses the election (trust me, I'm not giving anything away), he becomes physically and emotionally crippled. Certainly, the show achieves its moments of poignancy as we see the once-raging beast confined to a hospital bed, longing for the good old days before Roosevelt arrived with so much bureaucratic red tape. However, this...
Discussing the extent to which special interests and rich lobbies control Congress, Beatty said, "If we trust democracy, it's time to pay for it," he said...
...part of both the brain trust and the sounding board, working with others in my profession," Bursztajn says. "[Bradley] has reinvigorated health care as an issue...
...complete the peace process. But it may take more than even Rabin's inspirational example, commemorated by Arafat, Barak and Clinton in a ceremony in the Norwegian capital Tuesday, to spur progress in the troubled march to peace. After all, even at the height of the optimism and trust forged between Rabin and Arafat, the "final status" issues currently on the table were considered too contentious to tackle. But instead of building the trust and confidence of both sides in the peace process, the last five years of incremental agreements and breakdowns has, in fact, increased mutual suspicion and hostility...