Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good-ole-boy phrases like "that dog won't hunt" or "it's better than a poke in the eye with a stick," Pickens is every inch the businessman. In place of the pointed boots and Stetson hats that many independent oilmen wear, he favors sober gray suits, button-down shirts and striped ties. He rarely smiles, but when he does, the grin spreads slowly, almost reluctantly, across his face. Says a friend: "He deals with everyone, from Senators to bank presidents, as if he's telling them fishing stories." Yet he can be flint hard. Told of a worker...
...career I've rarely been a receiver of awards. Mostly I get something in Rolling Stone saying what man I was with or how my belly button was showing." Though her belly button was safely under wraps, Cher, 38, still got treated to a healthy helping of abuse last week at Harvard's annual Hasty Pudding Theatricals awards. After the requisite raucous parade through Harvard Square, featuring jugglers and Pudding actors in drag ("We're on the cutting edge of androgyny," boasted one), the pop singer-turned-actress was presented with the traditional pudding pot and ribbed about her wiry...
...Crimson's poolside enthusiasm translated directly into exceptional performances from the entire Harvard squad--from top to button...
...outer limits of sartorial acceptability. Boots, gray jeans, and a slightly wild shirt are the absolute limit; its probably safer to stay within two classic Harvard styles: a Casual Kirkland (Harvard football t-shirt or a rugby shirt, Lee or Levis, Adidas or equivalent) or a Basic Eliot (Oxford button down, wool sweater, Levis or khakis). A jacket and tie for guys will only attract pesky single-sex, out-of-town-school types who think you're from the B-School...
...Landers survey appeared to have touched a hot button among sex therapists, who argued that the columnist's pile of letters should not be taken as definitive statements about sex in America. For one thing, argued the authorities, the groups tend to be self-selective, not the random respondents found in more scientifically conducted polls. Said San Francisco Psychologist Lonnie Barbach, author of For Each Other, Sharing Sexual Intimacy and several other books on human sexuality: "If you've got a problem you have more impetus to write in and share...