Word: denimed
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...those things about hippie freedom and giving each other space go out the window at 3 a.m. when you don't get a phone call," says Steve Lynn, a hard-driving entrepreneur who operates nine burrito restaurants and still wears denim overalls to work. "My mother said, 'I hope you have a child just like you. It's the only way you'll know how much it pains me, what you're doing.' But the gulf between me and my mother was greater, because the change from the '50s to the '60s was greater. I mean, what could you tell...
...built a $1 billion fashion empire on the notion that there should be no barriers between the worlds of high culture and low, no dividing line between the aesthetics of refinement and ostentation. He finished off his splendidly cut couture gowns (costing $20,000-plus) with accoutrements of denim and plastic. During his abbreviated life Versace designed costumes for several operas produced at Milan's fabled La Scala, and outfitted the cast of Miami Vice. He took stately villas and compounds in Milan, Lake Como, Miami Beach and New York City and refurbished them into homes unimaginably ornate...
...sizes too small and have permanently dysfunctional zippers. Lesser offenders will be sentenced to wear bell-bottoms, acid-washed cut-offs and other stylistic abominations. The 1,000 workers who lost their jobs will genetically alter the cottonwood tree so that it bears unlimited blossoms of ready-to-sew denim. Having no raw material costs of significance, they will seize the machinery of production and produce quality blue jeans for the world...
...your classmates are vying for the opportunity to downsize you. Or maybe you will be the one pruning the workforce, sending a former teammate or study partner to the poorhouse. How will you and I fare when poetic justice reigns supreme? Where will you and I be when denim grows on trees...
...shirt, entered her eighth-floor room in a military-owned hotel on Waikiki Beach and ordered a male colleague out. "You know, you're just what I need right now," the 6 ft. 2 in. McKinney said, leaning over to kiss his 5 ft. 4 in. aide. Hoster, in denim shorts and a T shirt, recoiled and told him to leave. "Your lovely wife is right down the hall, and that's where you need to go," she said. "What I need is you," he countered, telling her that she was getting him excited. He put his hands...