Word: four
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...deem a phenomenon a trend is to imply its transience. In fashion, the life-span of a trend rarely exceeds four months, the length of a season, or roughly the time it takes a style to travel from New York to the rest of the country where, once embraced, it is unsentimentally dismissed by its original champions. So while the first half of the year was dominated by "ladylike" dressing, the prim skirt-and-sweater sets of demure eras past, the latter half celebrated all things leather. Along the way, women dallied with python skin, revived the Pucci print...
...year of impossible dreams fulfilled and operatic passions played out, of fantastic athletic achievement stunning for what it was and stunning for what it meant. When Ben Hogan won three of golf's four major tournaments in 1953, some said it would never be done again. Had you wagered that the next player to do it would be a young American of eclectically mixed race--a bit of white, a bit of black, a lot of Asian--then you would have walked off the course with cash worth counting...
...much extra-athletic significance. Modern Australia is in debate over the nation's poor-to-horrid treatment of the island's original settlers, the Aborigines. Now here was an Aboriginal seeking glory, and baldly admitting that she sought it not only for her country but for her people. Four hundred meters is a distance that allows tension to build, and when Freeman came off the near turn trailing, it was almost unbearable. Then she surged, and won. The audience was transported, shouting on and on. Freeman sat on the track, unable to rise, for minutes--letting the sound wash over...
Nancy Marchand 71 The Sopranos Mob matriarch won four Emmy Awards...
Gwen Verdon 75 Broadway hoofer high-kicked her way to four Tonys...