Word: discarded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show starts on time. "New York shows are shorter and more to the point -- less flummery and glitz. Maybe the reason is that New York is the capital of sportswear fashion, and histrionics don't sell the casual stuff. But to judge a designer's work, you have to discard the show biz, often even the costume as it's put together, and look at the elements separately. Underneath the jerk outfits, there may be wearable, even best-selling clothes...
Pointing to the fact that AIDS preventionfunding is staggering, Gebbi called upon Americansto view this disease as they do cancer anddiabetes, and to discard any misleading imagesthey have about AIDS...
While Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and council President Carey W. Gabay '94 urged further deliberation, Lo and Aronberg defended their decision to discard the absentee ballots for the run-off election...
...many incoming first-year students, college is the place to discard the restrictions that shaped their adolescent lives. To that end, many use their first encounters with alcohol as opportunities to drink to excess. Residence in the Yard makes a student an obvious target for enforcement of the new, expanded law. Predictably, several first-year parties were shut down during orientation week and shopping week. As usual for first offenses that occur on campus, no students face legal prosecution...
Still, no one can blame Miller for being himself -- not when he lets a spirit as rich and individual as Patricia's think out loud in a big room. And not when he has refined his best artistic tendencies. Mature artists often simplify, discard the old frills, decide what's important. Miller is 77 now; he has nothing to prove but much to tell, in a few words. The Last Yankee qualifies as prime old-man's art. It is just a sketch, really -- some lines that reveal the contours of a soul. In his final days, Matisse did work...