Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remained Seventh Avenue's most devout modernist, its pre-eminent avatar of form-follows-function thinking. Each season his models have ambled down the runway in clothes created in quiet protest against fashion's outlandish theatricality. He has never dabbled in a world of beaded headgear or rubber cocktail dresses. "I've always believed in simplicity," Klein reflects. "I've never been one to see women in ruffles and all kinds of fanciful apparel. To me it's just silly." No matter what the Gaultiers and Gallianos are doing, Klein, 53, keeps his palette defiantly muted, his lines aggressively clean...
...come from a family with lesser means, you're never introduced to a jacket and tie or a cocktail. It's just not part of your experience," says Linzee, who grew up in Stony Brook, N.Y. That's the way I look at class, as experiences...
Costs are not the only prohibitive factor for middle- or working-class students deciding whether or not to attend Harvard. Many students say the glossy admissions brochures and cocktail receptions at the tony Harvard Clubs spread throughout the country intimidate rather than entice...
When Leary feels his time is up, he says he will take a "suicide cocktail." But even at that, he's hedging his bets--he wants his body frozen by the Cryocare cryogenics lab for future resurrection. If he had to live his life all over again, would Leary have done anything differently? "Sure," he says, inebriated by the gas and, for some reason, baseball. "I've led the league as a human being over the last 30 years, but I've only batted one out of three. The other two times, I went up there, and probably shouldn...
...Harbor Air Service in Cheyenne. "A lot of pilots whose time is limited to sea level have forgotten and ended up in the golf course." The weather was ugly. A thunderstorm was moving in from the northwest, winds were 25 to 30 m.p.h. Thunderstorms are a potent cocktail for pilots, a possible mixture of updrafts, downdrafts, turbulence, icing and hail all at once. "I would have taxied up the runway and headed back," says "Red" Kelso of Cheyenne, a retired pilot with 52 years of flying experience. "There's no way I would have gone up in weather like that...