Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I was a kid, I'd always squirm when I thought I saw an adult trying to dress in the style of his children. There is a fine line between wanna-be fashion and no-clue fashion. Right now, that line is the stripe. Many people my age and older seem to pull off the racing stripe, but even they appear uncomfortable at times. The most conspicuous example of stripe-discomfort is found in the person who just can't quite believe that the black and white stripes lining his or her blue jeans are really supposed...
Part of the fun was our surprise at the serendipitous semi-formal. The ball had all the benefits without the worry about formal dress, dates or the kiss good night. The experience reminded us that having fun is all about kicking back and relaxing, something Harvard students do all too rarely...
...laughed our way through demonstrations that were teaching us how to throw off attempted rapists--because, really, what else can you do with a subject all too real and close? I watched as women whom you couldn't picture harming a kitten giggled nervously, fidgeted in their dress shoes, talked themselves down--and then proceeded to kick ass again and again, loving it all the while. And Abby and I wondered, talking such things over after class, why and whether RAD should exist at all and what it means that it does...
Rogers recently introduced a bill to theCouncil that calling for stricter dress anddiscipline codes, improved remedial educationprograms and increased tutoring in New Bedfordschools...
...party held by Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen the night of the Administration's NAFTA victory. I was en route to a taping of my show at CNN, and I was not wearing a "cozy white warm-up outfit," as you said, but my usual on-air uniform: dress shirt, tie, suspenders, respectable dark dress trousers and my favorite baseball jacket, which celebrates Japan's Nippon Ham Fighters team. That didn't seem to bother anyone; President Clinton even asked where he could get a jacket like mine. I own no white warm-up outfits, cozy or otherwise. I always dress...