Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speaker Tip O'Neill has called President Reagan "Herbert Hoover with a smile," and Reagan has branded Challenger Fritz Mondale "Vice President Malaise." But those were gentle epithets delivered with a velvet glove and a twinkling eye. Since we throw so many stones into television's glass house (Reagan dubbed ABC's Sam Donaldson "the Ayatullah of the White House press corps"), it should be mentioned that most political analysts believe the electronic medium has brought a higher level of behavior among the contenders for the White House. Lamentably, the entertainment level has declined...
...which is given to all members Obvious "Don'ts" include modern materials such as polyester--a cardinally sinful item and zippers. "You have to have an idea of who you're trying to be If you want to be a peasant, don't buy velvet. You have to be authentic. People will point it out if you're not," says Dana Gass '85, who revitalized Harvard's SCA chapter last year...
...keeping with this philosophy, Davies' book delights shamelessly in the unnecessary--in gossip and cheap sex (that is, $25 for Parlabane if he'll spend a day in a nightie and granny capteasing a bachelor professor with a long pink velvet ribbon) and splendid one-liners. The last word on the Humanities perhaps belongs to a physiology professor, tipsy at the close of a long-winded faculty dinner. In response to the essential orthodox remark that the Humanities are, after all, about Civilization, he begins to lecture...
...BOOK'S final essay Rockwell hurriedly fills in the gaps left by the rest of the work. Rock, he correctly argues, has forever lost its innocence to "artistic self-awareness." Even primitivism, from the Velvet Underground to the New York Dolls to Flipper, is essentially self-conscious. Today's hart-core punks are often far from the lowlife scum image they create and the violence of their music comes more as a rebellious expression of frustration with a static, repressive, bourgeois society than as a statement of being...
...truth behind the caricature shine through so clearly as at the annual Lowell House opera. Few other music and drama societies, while putting off the most ambitious of feats, strive to emulate the Metropolitan Opera House. At the 44th Annual Lowell House Opera, by contrast, the ushers wear black velvet, the concentration of Faculty members and other non-students is high, especially on "patron night" and the sets, voices and period costumes dazzle with ornateness. Toward the end, a giant spritzer even douses the stage and audience with flower scented must...