Word: garments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Observers of the Catholic hierarchy find Law frequently defending O'Connor's strict orthodoxy and breaking away from trend of Bernardin's "seamless garment" of life issues, in which the issues of life issues in which the issues of abortion social welfare programs, and nuclear arms are given equal treatment...
...quoting the editorial's long list of qualms about the President.* Mondale and his running mate, Geraldine Ferraro, joined some of New York's most prominent Democratic politicians for another traditional party rally-held every election year since the turn of the century-in Manhattan's garment district. The crowd of 100,000 stretched for five blocks. It was the largest, most enthusiastic rally that the neighborhood had witnessed since John Kennedy...
...Rather appeared particularly off balance. A few years ago, he donned a sweater to fight a cold and the garment became something of a trademark. On Tuesday night, the sweater was back, and so too, it seemed, was Rather's cold. Was he fighting a cold or fatigue--and if so, was he using speed to do the trick? No, most probably not, but that at least would explain his ballpark behavior. "Ronald Reagan is like the Babe Ruth of politics," Rather said, leaning forward intently. "The old democratic coalition is going"--right arm waves frantically to the side--"going...
...wish to be destructive. Caricature that goes too far simply lowers the viewer's response to a person as a human being." When he is not drawing caricatures, Levine enjoys painting traditional watercolors. His favorite subjects include women at work in New York City's garment district, where he has observed and sketched them since his boyhood as the son of a dress manufacturer, and at play at Coney Island in his native Brooklyn...
...characterized generally by looseness of fit, sternness of fabric and an abundance of detailing. The simple functionality of jeans has, for the moment, been displaced by daunting arrays of tabs, Velcro closings, double pockets and looping drawstrings, so that the wearer, having mastered the intricacies of donning such a garment, emerges not as an urban cowboy but as an urban guerrilla, ready for a street fight in the great fashion...