Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Capitol can feel like a World's Fair on pretty afternoons in late July. People dress well for the White House tour, keep their voices down because that is the President's House, but this is Our House. That was the whole idea. We come by the hundreds, thousands, in tank tops and flip-flops, to see where Webster debated and wars were declared and National Mushroom Month was inscribed onto the nation's calendar. Boy Scouts pose for pictures, senior citizens wear buttons and troll for a Congressman to pester, Pentecostal pilgrims deliver copies of the Ten Commandments...
...want to consider what the Europeans are up to now. They've become convinced that overheating also plays a role in triggering crib death. Some parents in Holland, for example, don't even keep sheets on their baby's bed. Instead, they dress the infant in a one-piece "baby sack," which leaves plenty of room for the child to move around without fear of sweltering or suffocating. That may be going a bit far, but there's no denying that taking a few simple steps so that your baby will breathe more easily in his sleep can prevent...
...absurd to think that the key to ending welfare is teaching folks how to dress and explaining the concept of "boss" [NATION, July 13]. The problems of poverty and unemployment in low-income neighborhoods are deeply entrenched. Quick-fix policies blind us to real solutions, such as fully funding our schools and providing jobs that pay a wage that can support a family. HUNTER CUTTING San Francisco...
...other film in the Earth-threatened-by-space-debris genre, ends with Bruce Willis telling young-stud Ben Affleck to "take good care of my little girl" and then, during a stressful moment involving a nuclear weapon, having a vision of his little girl (Liv Tyler) in her wedding dress. The message here is: Explosions are cool, and so are sappy dads who normally hide their mushy sides behind tough-guy dialogue like "Let's chew this iron bitch...
...Fresh Prince and Kramer have a new job on their hands here: they are teaching English around the clock, more thoroughly and at a younger age than the Israeli school system manages to do. The children soak up the language and with it what they see as American styles, dress and mannerisms...