Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Najarian knew, mainly because of tissue rejection. Their immune systems targeted transplanted organs as foreign and marshaled white blood cells to destroy the invaders. But Najarian saw a solution. With a colleague, he worked out a method for purifying a new drug called antilymphocyte globulin, or ALG, a potent cocktail of antibodies capable of countering the lethal reaction...
Mario Van Peebles demurs: "The kids don't see this movie as a call to arms but as a call to consciousness." In this Molotov cocktail of fact and fancy, the party's founders, Huey Newton (Marcus Chong) and Bobby Seale (Courtney B. Vance), are two streetwise dreamers from Oakland, California, who live their slogan: "Power to the People." They arm themselves and talk instructive trash to the pig cops-but within the letter of the law. They also serve food to kids and educate them in Afro awareness...
...have no fear! I didn't even see anyone who looked as though they might once, in an idle fantasy, have thought about carding me. My first cocktail waitress ever--the first ever to serve me, that is--came to our table a few moments later. When she asked me for my order, I chose beer. A natural Canadian instinct, but that was not enough. I suddenly realized that I had to specify what kind of beer I wanted. "Gimme a Blue," I stuttered. Wrong, the grad students told me, everybody orders that their first time...
...delectable pink skimmer. a sinuous little suit. A shiver of cocktail chiffon. An international parade of pretty clothes...
...York, the Chinese designer Han Feng, whose skill is also in color and fabric, showed her most sophisticated collection yet, and the Vietnamese Vivienne Tam floated some graceful, filmy cocktail dresses in black and white. Both offerings were abbreviated compared with the 100-outfit extravaganza launched by de la Renta, but collections like these are among the small pleasures of following fashion. Feng and Tam stick strictly to what their fabrics tell them and succeed in creating highly individual silhouettes...