Word: dress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coast. For the occasion, La Baraka (in Arabic, "the blessings of God") was transformed into a Moorish palace: gold chandeliers draped in white leaves and red streamers, the ceiling of the 50-ft.-high ballroom covered with shimmering silver and gold spangles like the fringes on a flapper's dress. That night, like a magnanimous feudal lord, Khashoggi, in a gray-and-black satin tuxedo, greeted his guests with kisses on both cheeks. Servants trooped into the ballroom carrying great silver salvers of lobster thermidor and pheasant with apples. For the children, there was a magic show featuring live doves...
...last month, Filmmaker Janna Gelfand, 26, read off the venial sins that had cost her an added pound, notably hors d'oeuvres at two cocktail parties. "You should have had a big bowl of vegetable soup before leaving your house," said Lee. Gelfand objected, "I had a tight dress on, and soup puffs out my tummy." Still, she has lost ten pounds and is enthusiastic about Lee's method; "She tells me to imagine fat cells sticking their tongues out at me when I eat the wrong thing. It works...
...study, published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), found that patients appear to prefer doctors who dress conservatively...
According to Dunn the study began two years ago when she started working at the Department of Medicine and asked for advice about how to greet patients and how to dress so as to be "appropriate...
...following day, as supporters pressed harder than ever for a commitment, she sought escape. First she went on a shopping expedition arranged by her daughter Viel and bought dress fabrics in her trademark yellow color. Later she treated herself to two home video movies selected by her sister. "One," she said, "was about a widower who cannot forget about his wife -- something nice and light with no complications. It made me happy...