Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cast your thoughts ahead to 30 years from now. Will our generation be the patrons of the symphony orchestras? I cannot imagine those who now listen exclusively to Nirvana and Live fixing a tie or donning a dress to attend a concert at an antiquated City Hall...
Another common trait among the injured is to continue to be a part of the team. The fact that they do not dress for games does not take this away...
...ours. A memorial assigns honor. The question for our community, then, is whether we can consider those who fought to dismember the United States and to preserve the institution of human slavery as deserving of honor. The answer is that we can't, regardless of how revisionists attempt to dress our history up or down...
...different narratives of the poems become the stories of seven women, each in a different colored dress. They remain nameless to emphasize the universality of their experience, yet each has a personal story to share...
Elsewhere, she deftly depicts the ways in which women can create glamorously detailed personas for one another based on passing observations of dress or manner. In Sacred Heart, the finest story in the collection, a girl named Sarah grows fascinated by a mysterious new classmate, Amanda. "She wore silver bracelets embedded with chunks of turquoise," notes Sarah, "and she would cross her legs and stare into space in a way that suggested she lived a dark and troubled life." Amanda eventually loses her mystique, of course, but through her the heroine fashions a singular identity...