Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SOMEWHERE in Texas, perhaps Fort Worth, there is a 22-year-old ultra-conservative being held hostage by a family of liberal fanatics...
...their hands languorously in time with the music, suck in their cheeks, stare icily into space and strut as if they were high-fashion models on the runways. Forget break dancing. So long to hiphop. At the hottest clubs in Manhattan, on MTV and at Paris fashion shows, the ultra-hip are into vogueing...
Forget break dancing. So long to hiphop. At the hottest clubs in Manhattan, on MTV and at Paris fashion shows, the ultra-hip are into vogueing, a scene that began in Harlem...
Under Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, the U.S. gave priority to evicting the Vietnamese troops, who invaded Kampuchea a decade ago. But to that end, Washington backed an unholy alliance of resistance forces, linking two non- Communist groups with the Khmer Rouge. Those genocidal ultra-Maoists are the best organized and best armed of the guerrillas, not to mention the most ruthless. So there has always been the possibility that they would come out on top after the Vietnamese withdrew...
...development was touted as the breakthrough of the decade in the baby-care industry: superabsorbency in a thinner diaper. Procter & Gamble successfully test-marketed a diaper containing wood-pulp fluff and gel materials in 1984 and soon afterward brought Ultra Pampers on the market. Before long, Kimberly- Clark introduced a competing product, Huggies Supertrim. Last week both types of diapers were on display in a federal court in Charleston, S.C., where K-C is being sued for allegedly violating P&G's patent on its superabsorbency design...