Word: coate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Drew" to what quickly became Loveline, the hit Los Angeles-based radio show he still plays host on (and which MTV's version is based on). His growing medical practice confirmed his suspicions about kids: "Behind closed doors, they wouldn't talk at all. In my white coat, I was an authority figure. I was Dad, their worst nightmare." In a medium in which kids were comfortable, he could "demystify" difficult issues surrounding sexuality and "maybe make adolescence less painful...
Thirty years have vanished since then, but that image has not. It seems even starker with age. The busboy was almost angelic in that white service coat, his eyes drained of innocence, the background a dark blur...
Every few weeks, outside the movie theater in virtually any American town in the late 1910s, stood the life-size cardboard figure of a small tramp--outfitted in tattered, baggy pants, a cutaway coat and vest, impossibly large, worn-out shoes and a battered derby hat--bearing the inscription I AM HERE TODAY. An advertisement for a Charlie Chaplin film was a promise of happiness, of that precious, almost shocking moment when art delivers what life cannot, when experience and delight become synonymous, and our investments yield the fabulous, unmerited bonanza we never get past expecting...
Other fashions sweep into style later in the year, especially on college campuses. Big mitts, crew hats and candy stockings were all the rage, while boy-girl look-alikes included twin parkas, sweaters, and raccoon coat dual outfits...
...Plympton Street resident reported that while in Bruegger's Bagels an unknown person took her wallet from her coat pocket. When she canceled her credit cards, she was informed that a number of charges had been made...