Word: citrus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always as sure as her taste in music. She tries on a floor-length purple coat that looks like something Rick James would have worn to Louis XIV's coronation. "Oh, my God!" she exclaims, loving it. Next, a lumpy bright orange coat that makes her look like a citrus industry spokeswoman...
...Industry insiders believe JonBenet was being groomed for greater things--talk-show appearances, modeling gigs, commercials, even television sitcom and movie roles. The California contests are particularly popular because talent scouts and casting agents often use them to search for new faces. Six-year-old Randi Anderson, a "Miss Citrus Heights," "Golden Carousel National Queen," "Universal Miss Supreme Beauty," and "Miss American Beauty" who has been on the circuit for only a year and a half, already has a thriving modeling career, and has had her face on the cover of Sacramento magazine...
...offseason." In other bowls: The Cougars rallied to beat No. 14 Kansas State 19-15 Wednesday in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas. No. 7 Penn State 38, No. 20 Texas 15 in the Fiesta Bowl at Tempe, Ariz.; No. 9 Tennessee 48, No. 11 Northwestern 28 in the Citrus Bowl at Orlando, Fla., and No. 12 North Carolina 20, No. 25 West Virginia 13 in the Gator Bowl at Jacksonville, Fla. So the nation's number one figures to be crowned Thursday night in the Sugar Bowl, when top-ranked Florida State meets number three Florida in a rematch...
...successful crusade to repeal a gay-rights ordinance in Dade County, Florida. Though the Christian right held her up as its poster girl, her Bible beating turned off the public at large. Along with her popularity, she eventually lost a $100,000-a-year contract with the Florida Citrus Commission. Her 20-year marriage to manager Bob Green also ended. Bryant had once denounced divorce as a sin; today, it seems, she's been reborn. In 1990 she married former NASA test crewman Charlie Dry, a childhood sweetheart from Tishomingo, Oklahoma. Last year the two purchased the Anita Bryant Theater...
...Necessary Objects shows how fast the market can react, both to a source of inspiration and to the latest fashion fads. In a collection priced from $30 to $60, she goes with the runway news of just a month or two ago: vinyl; witchy holographic effects; leopard patterns; hot citrus limes, lemons and orange, the season's primary colors; and faux-naive flower prints--Liberty as interpreted by Prada...