Word: cladding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clad in tuxedos and full-length formal gowns, the Harvard-Radcliffe ballroom dancing team dominated Saturday's Harbor Invitational at the University of Massachusetts at Boston...
Poison. Anthrax. Alice in Chains. Skid Row. The band names alone conjure images of mayhem, torture and death. Heavy-metal rock, with its raw lyrics, pummeling beats, banshee vocals and buzz-saw guitars, seems custom-made for leather-clad lowlifes with tattooed biceps and lobotomized brains. Teenagers love it. Always have. But during the early 1980s, when the insipid glam-rock of Duran Duran ruled the charts, heavy metal was the idiot in the basement, shunned by music-industry executives and dismissed by critics as adolescent noise...
...exploitative gimmicks are growing increasingly shameless. No one but Donahue could kill an hour debating whether beauty contests in bars are demeaning to women or just good clean fun -- or manage to keep a straight face while trotting out, after every commercial break, a different trio of scantily clad women to demonstrate these contests...
...know, I know. Studs is not exactly high art. Basically, two California dudes go on blind dates with three California babes. Then they go on television and tell the grimy details to an all-too-affable, all-too-Armani-clad host named Mark DeCarlo, who is basically Steve Gutenberg plus three or four buckets of oozing primordial slime. One lucky couple--occasionally, two or no lucky couples--gets to continue its romance on an all-expense-paid dream date...
...Harvard what is one moment a slovenly dining hall may metamorphose into an elegant cabaret theater the next. Fanatics of Stephen Sondheim's tunes are fortunate that one such transformation occurs in the Dunster House Dining Hall--tables gain placemats and food service workers become tuxedo-clad waiters serving nachos and salsa gratis...