Word: crepe
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...movie’s hopeful message got more annoying as we followed Samantha to homeroom and high school dances in crepe-papered gyms. Sam made silly mistakes—mistakes involving public displays of underwear no less!—but she still got her man in the end. The film gives fumbling teenagers a false sense of security, implying that despite the cattiness and embarassments of high school, there is true love out there. Figuring out that the film’s happy ending is as much a Hollywood fantasy as the rest of the movie wasn?...
...were my favorite heavy-duty kitchen shears and a couple of little no-stick frying pans I'd been saving for a rainy day--because, you know, they do wear out. They're just the right size to make a hamburger when you're by yourself, or a small crepe. Whatever some people say, I think they're absolutely wonderful. Of course, you don't let professional chefs use them because they are not accustomed to taking care of them properly...
...backpacks on the floor; there is no trash waiting to be taken out. Pink tulle material decorates the door handle. Songs from Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” float from a laptop, which rests on a desk wrapped entirely in pink crepe paper. Colored Christmas tree lights adorned with sparkly pieces of candy line the molding and the drawers. Colorful flower pots sit in the corner, next to a purple parasol. The floor lamp is ornamented with silver chiffon butterfly wings. Printed patterns of pink and red lipsticks and compacts dot the bedsheets...
...Cambridge, and ultimately to her freshman dorm room, Lauren found little to work with. “When I first walked in here I was crying because it was so ugly.” A quick trip to Pearl Art in Central Square, where Jacks picked up the pink crepe paper and some pink paint, remedied the situation. She was relieved that the Freshman Dean’s Office took her demands for a single seriously, because someone else’s orange bedspread in the midst of her pink would have spoiled everything...
...jobs. Companies from 16 countries now manufacture in the region. Exports range from precision valves to computer chips to 75% of the world's steel golf-club shafts. Tupelo has even attracted one U.S. factory back from Mexico. And other Tupelo companies compete successfully against imports, making everything from crepe paper to couches. (The Hometown of the King of Rock 'n' Roll is also the Upholstered Furniture Capital of the World...