Word: button
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...with the baggy jeans, the chinoiserie, the gypsy queen regalia. In with the snappy blue blazers and tweed hacking jackets, button-down Oxford-cloth shirts and Shetland sweaters, khaki slacks and tartan skirts. This summer and fall, the fashion-conscious woman will be wearing exactly what the fashion-unconscious woman has been wearing for decades. It is currently labeled the Preppie Look, though the style has also been known as Ivy League, Town and Country, Brooks Brothers or-in England -County. Mother would approve...
...three months it seemed that everyone in Sweden was wearing a lapel button. Some sported badges reading ENERGY FOR SWEDEN. Others wore yellow buttons with a red sunburst proclaiming...
...would have been phased out over the next ten years. Instead, even though the referendum was not constitutionally binding, the government is now obliged to move forward with a national plan to continue developing nuclear energy for at least another 25 years. Still sporting his NO, THANK YOU button after the vote, Centrist Premier Thorbjörn Falldin went on national television. "I remain personally opposed to nuclear power," he said. "But my conscience is not the decisive factor. Swedes have spoken, and I am pledged to carry out their will...
...tempestuous attempts at punk mentality on the second release, Ha! Ha! Ha! The band took the Great Leap Forward, both in terms of control and content, shifting from mondo-meltdown rockers to cool and cerebral nouveau disco. The main interest moved to, the machines themselves. Push a button and watch the lights blink. It was hypnotic and irresistible...
...cold biographical facts, Lead Guitarist Johnny Ramone clams up like a good JD facing his first joyride rap. "We never say our real names," he allows with teasing stubbornness that combines the flirtatiousness of a starlet who has just been asked her age and the sacred silence of a button man pleading the Fifth. If pressed, Johnny will elaborate: "We can't subject our parents to this. I never told them in the beginning about the band. They'd have said, 'Stop this, you can't even play a song.' I waited until...