Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chief delights of most visitors seems to be filling Expo passports with the stamps of each country. Children, adults, everyone wants a stamp. When the emblem of the Ivory Coast failed to arrive during the first week, a slim young woman in a long black-and-white dress made do by patiently writing in each book: "Cote d'Ivoire Pavillon." Who knows? That may be the fair's most treasured souvenir...
Molly the blues singer, that is. The one who recorded an album, Molly Sings, when she was six. Whose favorite vocalists were Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. Who, for a second-grade show-and-tell about a famous American (in which most of the boys dressed as George Washington and most of the girls as Florence Nightingale), showed up as Bessie Smith, in a big old dress and a perm like an Afro. "When I was a little kid," Molly says, "I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs...
...theme was "Americana" or something like that and the girls all dressed in skintight silver shake-your-stuff suits for a toe-tapping salute to George M. Cohan and for the evening gown competition each semi-finalist was escorted in a knockout dress beneath an archway of uplifted Naval Academy sabers and the cadets lucky enough to accompany the lovely ladies wore Good Humor Man ice-cream suits and Remedial Math dropjaw smiles like a bunch of meatheaded Varsity fullbacks strutting arm-in-arm with prospective Homecoming Queens and for the swimsuit competition the camera played fly-on-the-wall...
...sales" in August. Instead of copying the slick style of the ad factories on Madison Avenue, local advertisers churn out low-budget affairs that they often write and produce themselves. Nothing is too ridiculous if it catches a viewer's attention: announcers attack water beds with chain saws or dress up like gorillas and yell, "You'll go bananas!" In some cases, these homemade off- the-wall routines have caused a company's business to increase 100% or more virtually overnight. Says Burton Manning, chairman of the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency: "Silliness sells when you're trying...
...Justices to her left, apparently because a case involved two competing principles that both appealed to her as a conservative. In March, for instance, weighing the demands of military authority against the exercise of religious belief, she rejected Rehnquist's majority opinion that the Air Force could enforce a dress code prohibiting religious headgear, in this case a yarmulke. Says Bruce Fein of the American Enterprise Institute: "She just wanted a little more military justification." On the same day, her close attention to procedural correctness led to another disappointment for conservatives. In a 5-to-4 decision involving the legitimacy...