Word: voguish
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black, the voguish color for '80s objects. The background of these pages, black matte, is an homage to that design enthusiasm...
...catch up with the European styles that most automakers were copying. Ford chose to jump way ahead, taking the risk that it might come up with another Edsel. Instead, Ford's roundish, so-called jelly- bean designs have enticed car buyers who had abandoned domestic makes for more voguish foreign nameplates. First came the restyled 1983 Thunderbird and Cougar coupes and the new 1984 Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz compacts. When the Taurus (base price: $10,650) and Sable rolled out last December, they became instantly trendy among an important target group: young professionals and growing families. Ford expects...
...sounding bored beyond her years. She dropped out of high school four years ago, at 15, and has no job and no firm idea of what she will do next. She likes to stay up until all hours of the night in this or that nightspot, especially Xenon, a voguish discotheque off Times Square. If she seems jumpy this afternoon, it is because tonight she is going to Xenon not to dance or just mingle but to sing, in front of hundreds of paying customers...
...three-martini lunches, but the political dynamite of our society comes from chronic unemployment and inflation along with the futility of many poor neighborthoods. The current stagnation prevents both the public and private sectors from assisting the poor they once did. While Muller is right to dismiss the voguish speculation on taxation and capital formation as irrelevant to future prosperity, he provides no radical response to pressing social problems. He advocates a decentralized, grass-roots reform of labor, corporations and government relationships. Muller outlines a program of cooperation between these economic actors that would eradicate the misallocation of resources, stemming...
...view of the gentlemen who fashioned this pop quasi-documentary set to music, Eva was spunky, iron-willed, flagrantly corrupt and a canny mistress of horizontal levitation. With few visible qualms, Evita trades on the voguish temper of the age, which holds that however sleazy, venal or decadent a person is, his or her rise to the top confers chic, even upon moral carrion...