Word: upon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...examples are easy. The Madonna look. Torn stockings. Tie-dye. Tattered jeans. Multiple ear pierces. A man with long hair or an earring. And, of course, the miniskirt, which, some may recall, was once upon a time a youthquaking look of radical chic and rebellion. Now businesswomen wear them...
...squad's need for this potion was very clear Saturday afternoon in West Point, N.Y., as the aquamen came upon another shaved opponent in Army and fell to the Cadets by a 72-41 margin. The defeat dropped Harvard to a 3-2 overall mark (2-2 EISL, 1-1 Ivy League...
...Grimm brothers, is unprecedented. The work of collaborators separated by more than 150 years is irresistible. All three converge in Dear Mili (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $16.95), a long-lost Grimm tale in which a mother sends her child off to the forest as war approaches. Mili stumbles upon a safe house where she is sheltered by St. Joseph and her guardian angel. After three days the child is guided home, but in that time 30 years have passed. Mili is unchanged; her mother has dramatically aged. The conclusion is freighted with mystery, amplified by Sendak's floating vistas and romantic...
...lines, elemental colors and vigorous figures, Byron Barton follows the exploits of a futuristic young traveler who says I Want to Be an Astronaut (Crowell; $12.89). All the experiences are cataloged and exhibited: zero gravity, concentrated meals, a space walk, even the building of a factory in orbit. Once upon a time such adventures seemed the stuff of daydreams. This user-friendly manual makes them not only plausible but likely...
...When John Kennedy was confronted with contradictory messages from Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban missile crisis, he decided to cable his acceptance of the more conciliatory of the two and ignore the other. Faced with differing interpretations and translations of what was decided in Algiers, the U.S. could seize upon the more positive interpretations as the basis for preliminary talks with the P.L.O. The U.S. goal in those discussions: to nudge the P.L.O. into agreeing that it has indeed adopted a "full acceptance of Israel...