Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American male is a difficult species to dress. He hates to shop. He considers it daringly fashion-forward to wear a deep blue shirt instead of a pale blue one. On casual Fridays, he may go nuts and slip on a pair of khakis. To most of his ilk, showing that you care about what you wear is European or effeminate, or both...
WASHINGTON: Now that he's confessed, what about the mess on the dress? Sources close to Ken Starr say they have obtained a sample of President Clinton's DNA Thursday, and that it will be sent directly to the FBI crime lab where Monica's infamous blue Gap dress currently resides. Prosecutors most likely obtained the sample -- blood or saliva -- from Bethesda Naval Hospital, where the President has his annual physicals...
...Indeed, the lack of opposition from the White House -- which had originally been expected wage a protracted court battle for presidential DNA privilege -- speaks volumes about how unimportant the dress is, now that Clinton has finally owned up to an "improper" relationship with the former intern. No matter where the alleged stain resides, it would simply be physical evidence of what Clinton has already admitted. Its testing days will soon be done, and the blue dress can join the Zegna tie in the closet of Clinton curiosities...
...hospital that may have caused her misery: "Money can't change the fact that my child was switched," she sighs. "I live on a thousand dollars a month. Money would help, but it don't mean anything to me." At a time when legal battles over a stained Gap dress have paralyzed Washington, the cooperative spirit of these families a few miles to the south was refreshing...
...Buffett was drinking, singing and passing the hat in the Chart Room bar when he met a radiant honey blond named Jane Slagsvol, who'd come to town for spring break from the University of South Carolina. The next night he saw her again, "wearing a tight, long pink dress that made a lasting impression on me." Jane moved in with Buffett and never did get back to school. They were married in 1977--the year Margaritaville hit--at an all-night Aspen blowout (the wedding band was the Eagles). But after five more years among the rock aristocracy, Jane...