Word: vanguardism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the vanguard of this scene may have passed into their 20s, the audience is largely high school. The boys may like to imitate the cocky flash of what a graffiti artist named Phase 2 calls "the stickup kids," but most of them score their clothes as gifts from parents or-goodbye to another bit of downtown mythology-pay for them with money from part-time jobs. Clothes in this culture are seminal enough to work hard for. "People tend to think if you're poor, you're not supposed to have anything," Phase 2 says. "But when...
Were I in need of an editorial on "big issues." I doubt I would flatter The Crimson by turning to page two. I would look to the Globe, the Times, the New Republic, Moral Majority News, Workers Vanguard--anywhere but The Crimson. Whether or not the average Harvard student is ignorant, apathetic, or stupid, it is not up to The Crimson to chastise...
Another fear about falling oil prices is that they could do more damage to the already faltering efforts to develop alternative energy sources. In West Germany, says Economist Liane Launhardt of Commerzbank, research money for vanguard work on solar energy, coal gasification and synthetic fuel may dry up. France is deeply committed to an ambitious nuclear program, which now generates 39% of the country's electricity. The French want to raise that figure to 70% by 1990, but if oil prices slide, the investment could end up being extremely uneconomical...
...Cornelia's boyfriend of a year. Riva, 42, is a dapper real estate speculator whose Italian parents raised him in Peru. I think she is great, fantastic," Riva says, snapping photo after photo of Cornelia in her silver jacket and leather pants. 'Very fantastic. We have a vanguard, you enow...
Salesmen and seers, they are in the vanguard of the revolution