Word: bananas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bedroom should not be a place for work, that all signs of work should be placed in the study or the library so as to avoid sleeplessness and stress. But for most of us, our bedrooms are our only rooms, not counting the windowless common rooms littered with banana peels and CD jewel boxes. We have no place reserved for quiet and rest. The Harvard houses contain no saunas, no shrines for quiet contemplation. We are bereft of calming influence...
...evening begins at about 6 p.m., when I head to the building full of confidence. The evening will run smoother than a Wet Banana...
...exaggerated side of middle-class, middle-aged skank, and it often lessens the plausibility and fluidity of some scenes. Albee describes Martha's character as "A large, boisterous woman, 52, looking somewhat younger, ample, but not fleshy." Moulton hoofs around stage, frizzy red hair barely contained by a banana clip, more like a flouncy, black-bra-ed Roseanne than the saggy, sleazy yet sexy woman Liz Taylor portrays expertly in the 1966 Warner Bros. film adaptation...
...Indeed, his spare-chic ethos is reflected in the work of everyone from superstars like Donna Karan, Michael Kors and Miuccia Prada to up-and-comers like handbag designer Kate Spade. More significantly, it is the bedrock of the no-fuss aesthetic peddled by the Gap, J. Crew and Banana Republic, increasingly the purveyors of the American uniform...
...that he is building the "world's largest underground chemical-weapons plant" to produce nerve gas [WORLD, April 1]. Industrialized and developing countries are equally threatened by megalomaniacs playing with the most destructive gadgets man has ever created. Democracy is threatened, and the superpowers seem as powerless as banana republics. HELENE THIBAULT Ottawa...