Word: dress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young woman of Latin descent--she was extremely short and wore a headband and some kind of peasant dress--nudged my arm, looked up at me, and said, "We're Maoist utopians and we're prepared to fight to the death." I smiled politely...
...they did any business entertaining in their home towns. Peter the counselor wanted to promote family unity. His instructional techniques also became personal. If an employee tended to speak with his hand over his mouth, Ueberroth would reach out and brush it away. If Ueberroth was concerned about shabby dress, that employee's bonus would carry specific instructions to buy a couple of new suits. His bluntness was his way of peddling improvement. At the same time, Ueberroth was intensely opposed to workplace discrimination, frequently hiring older employees, giving younger ones serious responsibilities and using women managers years before they...
...cropping up in the stories, as do the names of some who have figured prominently and mysteriously in its history: Colonel Aureliano Buendia, JoséArcadio Buendia. The village-universe of One Hundred Years of Solitude makes brief, embryonic appearances. Big Mama's Funeral (1962) seems a small dress rehearsal for the extravagant saga that was to follow. The death of Macondo's matriarch sends nearly everyone into frenetic activity. Lawmakers debate: "Interminable hours were filled with words, words, words, which resounded throughout the Republic, made prestigious by the spokesmen of the printed word. Until, endowed with...
...great fans of the service. Traci Laffer of Los Angeles, the wife of supply-side Economist Arthur Laffer, figures that she has used Federal Express 20 times in the past year. Shipments to her traveling husband or the Laffer children away at school have included cufflinks, homework, a party dress and a computer part. Says she: "My husband thinks I'm crazy, but when you need something quickly it's the only way to get it there...
Last night Walt Whitman had the strangest dream. There he was, staring out his bedroom window, when who should hop in but Huck Finn, itching to travel. "Dress warmly," Walt's dead mom told him. And we're off to see Louisa May Alcott, who's having an affair with a Tahitian prince. Over there's Charlotte Cushman, the noted actress, playing Hamlet to Emily Dickinson's Ophelia; they become co-stars and lovers. Old Ralph Waldo Emerson is having a chat with the dead Henry David Thoreau: "Sex can be messy...