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Word: bras (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evildoers and still finds the time to poke his head in on his sleeping children and muse that young Sally "now looked forward to the day she'd buy things from Victoria's Secret." Alas, with Ryan as her father she will probably wind up wearing camouflage-colored bras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: A STAR-SPANGLED SNOOZE | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...than they ever could. Only a couple of years ago, they were cut so high in the thighs that even the glammest gals approached the water awkwardly, bent over and tugging at their crotches. This year, mercifully, the suits are longer around the thighs and cunningly fortified with underwire bras and invisible tummy-flattening devices. The more fiercely constructed ones can probably swim without an occupant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE REAL SWIMSUIT ISSUE | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

...Instead of Bentley Turbos, Mercedes S-class sedans and the usual Porsches and Lamborghinis, so boring, there was a Lost Safari of Land Rovers, Ford Explorers, Grand Cherokees and GMC Suburbans, all tricked out with steel brush guards, roof racks, off-roading spare-wheel mounts, and black-leather car bras to ward off gravel and grasshoppers on the Paris-Dakar run. Cedergren flashed his perception to his clients: "Cars are now history. The future belongs to trucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH RIDE AND HANDSOME | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

ASKED TO DEFINE THE IDEALIZED WOMAN WHO HAS COME TO BE known as the Cosmo Girl, editor in chief Helen Gurley Brown once replied, "She has always been sexy, slender and bosomy." The latter adjective--so evocative of old-fashioned feminine allure, of torpedo bras and Pursettes, of Helen Gurley Brown herself (though she is actually wafer thin)--describes what is probably the Cosmo Girl's most famous attribute. "A beautiful bosom is a beautiful bosom," Brown elaborated. "If you don't have one, you look on with awe and envy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WOMAN IN THEM | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

...flag is a symbol, how can a replica of a flag be anything but another flag? The T at the start of this sentence is not a replica of the letter T, but of course the letter T itself. By the same logic, flag patches, flag bikini bras, underpants and decals are all equally flags and potentially entitled to the full protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MY FLAG, YOUR SHORTS | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

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