Word: traveller
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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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 rife with space-age communication, space-age travel, once a presumed inevitability of the new millennium, wasn't happening. Instead, the hip mode of transportation evoked the era of Eisenhower, if not the Flintstones. The foot-propelled scooter captivated virtually every age group in every community across America. Collapsible, portable and all but useless for even medium-distance commutes, the scooter achieved enough prominence to generate its own backlash: injuries to riders, irritation to pedestrians. For the duration of its extended moment, the scooter answered a nostalgia for an earlier age and a desire for frivolity in this...
...state of constant anxiety and dread. He loved to be asked to go places and do good things and receive prestigious honors, but he hated to leave home and routine. He felt he should meet people and see the world, but he was increasingly phobic about travel. He panicked on airplanes, broke out in a cold sweat at the very idea of a hotel lobby. At home in his studio, he loved receiving fan letters by the hundreds but resented the demands on his time. Perhaps because he refused so many requests for public appearances, he was unfailingly openhanded...
Edmondson said that such policies do not properly accommodate international students with homes far away, financially burdened pupils who cannot afford travel expenses, or the studious who prefer to productively pass the vacation...
Williams said he feared that the snow Atlanta has had this year might put the brake on his travel plans...