Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hands properly swaddled, he pulls on a pair of cutoff bib overalls that bring back both the sharecropper's son and the slaughterhouse boy, and he picks up the tape player. Out on the gym floor, he throws his first punch at the wall, knocking down a framed quotation by former Heavyweight Champion of the World Gentleman Jim Corbett. Joe does not bend to pick it up or to read the first line...
...rhinestone-studded shoes. Joseph's brothers put on cowboy hats and overalls for a country and western song in one scene, sombreros for a Mexican mariachi number in another. Joseph, played with spirit if not much conviction by Bill Hutton, is a blond beachboy in shorts and a cutoff shirt. Nothing is sacred, yet at the same time nothing is profaned. Webber and Rice have written a show merely to amuse and entertain, and they have succeeded...
...Eligibility standards are tightened. The maximum charge for a reduced-price lunch doubles to 400, and the maximum family income is $15,630 if children are to pay that little, vs. $17,440 under old formulas (these standards, like subsidy payments, are indexed to inflation). The family income cutoff line for totally free lunches drops to $10,990 from the $11,520 scheduled under the old law. Furthermore, the new legislation urges schools not to notify parents of the changes in eligibility rules for free lunches when asking them to report their incomes, in order not to tempt them...
...undergrowth. Young. Trendy. First on line to buy tickets for an E.L.O. concert? No, they have come to rescue a friend, Scorpio, who is in Cassadine's clutches. They are Luke and Laura. Apparently account for the show's "youth appeal." Luke wears a shirt with cutoff sleeves and a gold chain. Laura is illegitimate daughter of Dr. Lesley Webber. Dr. Rick Webber adopted her when he married her mother but now Rick and Lesley are divorced. Pity. Who is Dr. Rick Webber? Notice Laura wears Woodstock Indian headband. Youth appeal? Learn that Luke stole her heart forever...
...their husbands were circumcised. A sizable portion of the men were also wrong in assessing their condition. Circumcision will correct two conditions that occur in a fraction of uncircumcised children: phimosis, a narrowing of the foreskin hampering erection and urination; and paraphimosis, retraction of the foreskin resulting in a cutoff of blood to the end of the penis...