Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japanese dreams. "America is equated with freedom, openness, wide spaces," says Hikaru Hayashi, senior research director of Hakuhodo Institute of Life & Living, a research arm of one of Japan's largest advertising companies. "Sharing in America can release Japanese teenagers from the restraints they live with every day. Through fashion, they can capture a bit of the life-style they can never hope to live...
Today's teenagers, says Hayashi, are especially prone to America fixation because they are children of Japan's postwar baby-boom generation. "The parents of today's teenagers," says Hayashi, "grew up in a more internationalized, more open Japan. They sang Beatles songs and dressed in Ivy League fashion. They have passed those ideas on to their kids." Little wonder that some favor the retro boom, based on a fascination with the 1950s, while others are enchanted with the 1960s. Vests and jeans, the preferred accoutrements of the '60s, are making a comeback. A funky boutique called the Chicago Thrift...
They hardly knew what hit them. That describes the ouster of legendary staffers who have lived out their usefulness to Si Newhouse, chairman of his family's publishing conglomerate. In 1987 William Shawn was suddenly removed as editor of the New Yorker after 35 years. Last year fashion doyenne Grace Mirabella was dethroned from the editorship at Vogue after 17 years; reportedly, she first learned the news of her dismissal from a friend who heard...
Lucy Moore (Mary Stuart Masterson) has a baby, or will in a few weeks. In the modern fashion of adoption, the Spectors spend time getting to know her. And to like her -- Lucy has a lot to like. A blossom growing out of white trash, she teeters between unaffected adolescence and poignant maturity. But perhaps the Spectors are also rehearsing for parenthood; perhaps they are determined to send sweet signals across the barriers of culture, class and age. They realize that their ability to adopt her baby depends finally on Lucy's whim. So, effectively, they adopt Lucy...
...Miss Emily Brent, an aged spinster, Andrea Thome manages to keep her back erect and her opinions prim even as her peers die in hideous fashion. John Ducey adopts the physical mannerisms of an old fogey perfectly, and his General Arthur MacKenzie shambles from place to place in a manner that is both disconcerting (Ducey's mouth hangs open for much of his time on stage) and endearing (when he apologetically requests a certain seat because "that's where my chair is at the Club...