Word: denims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SATURDAY NIGHT AT DENIM & DIAmonds, a country-western nightclub in Santa Monica, California, and the joint is jumping -- literally. Under a spinning glitterball flanked by stuffed moose and deer heads, several hundred people in boots and ten-gallon hats are doing something called the Electric Slide. As a band pumps out a country hit, the dancers hook their thumbs in the front pockets of their jeans and line up shoulder to shoulder. Moving together to the beat, they cross one foot over the other and take three steps to the left, three steps to the right, rock back and forth...
...particularly poignant with the family ranchers, not the King Ranch of almost 1 million oil- rich Texas acres or the Mormon church's Deseret Ranch in Florida, which runs 34,000 head of cattle. The big combines will survive. But the little guys are in jeopardy, a thin denim line of about 250,000 from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico, leasing in varying amounts about 280 million acres of mountain and high desert range from the U.S. government...
Then he shows me the "Vintage Denim" or "Classic Rags"--euphemisms for second hand Levis. This "authentic recycled clothing" will set you back...
When the students enter the lab, they see the cadavers set up on metal tables. The bodies are covered first with layers of plastic and material to keep them moist, and then with a blue denim-like cloth. A metal bucket at the end of the table collects the excess formaldehyde that drains from the body. "Sometimes [the bucket] seems like it's getting a little full," says Elbert Huang...
...They see Blacks as no-good savages in baggy denim jeans," says Romel Augustin, a senior at Rindge and Latin...