Word: yearning
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...confess: I love fashion. I study the magazines; I shop; I spend more than I should. To look chic is to feel great. No matter how we women yearn to be valued for other qualities, we invest a considerable amount of our psychic selves in our appearance. We're not all born beautiful, but we can make the most of what we've got. That's the art of style: improving on nature. Fashion helps us shape that sense of style, give it definition, freshness, sparkle, zing...
...Europeans crave for America, for them a mixture of freedom and modernity, of the Statue of Liberty, of Coca-Cola and of blue jeans -- a symbiosis between liberating principle and pop culture. West Europeans, celebrating the regained unity of the Continent and the prospect of a renaissance there, also yearn to keep close to America. Still not autonomous in terms of security, they want Americans to stay on European soil, not only to provide a balance vis-a-vis the remaining military power of the Soviet Union but also vis-a-vis the inevitable political and economic weight of Germany...
...little choice. "It is our tradition to accept authority," says a Saudi professional in Dhahran, adding significantly, "unless the legitimacy of authority is lost." Now that the once closed kingdom has been shocked into opening its doors to the outside world, King Fahd may discover that his people will yearn for a greater say in how their lives...
...Both have probably earned less in endorsement contracts than their achievements merited: Navratilova's bisexuality makes advertisers nervous, while Lendl's unsmiling manner on the court and his passion for privacy off it come across, wrongly, as meanness. And both, while seeming indifferent to their reputations of the moment, yearn for a good name in future annals of the game. That is inevitably linked to Wimbledon. The men's circuit has 79 events this year, the women's tour 62, but no one much remembers who prevails in Cincinnati or Stuttgart...
...comparisons end in paradox. The Burmese, the least sophisticated warriors, enmeshed in the longest, most brutal war, yearn for soothing discipline and community structure, while inner-city youth of Los Angeles, at the center of the most advanced society on earth, respond to adversity and deprivation by regressing to a primitive parody of tribes...