Word: fabricating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sort of tribal-rock look. The clothes are cut tight to the body, not to say skimpy. Minis are micro, midriffs bare. Pinpricked Airtex, borrowed from athletes' uniforms, reigns here. Perhaps the chicest outfit in the group is a plain black vinyl shift. The very latest fashion fabric, polyester treated to appear holographic, appears in pretty iridescent tops. Daphne Rubin-Vega, who plays Mimi in the show and models the clothes here, gets to the point when she says, "They're really bohemian." Well, boho goes uptown...
Economic Policy Review editor and Heritage Foundation member Adam Myerson was somewhat more optimistic about the current state of citizen involvement. Myerson credited "social entrepreneurs" with the mending of "America's social fabric...
...Ganges. As we sipped to the rhythmic whirl of prayer wheels, I in my all-cotton, breathable Sahib Gear[TM] Punting Pants, Jan in her wind-resistant Amelia Earhart Aviator's Bra, we couldn't help noticing the elegant saffron robe that enveloped our host. The rustic fabric, simple and unfussy, draped beautifully--perfect, as Jan remarked to his holiness, for curtains...
After all, consciousness--the existence of pleasure and pain, love and grief--is a fairly central source of life's meaning. For it to have been thrown into the fabric of the universe as a freebie would suggest to some people that the thrower wanted to impart significance...
Students face many choices in college from among the myriad of issues interwoven in the fabric of youth culture. While these issues are not faced by the majority of students, the minority who do experience them often raise alarm among roommates, family, faculty, and administration. In many ways the success of those responsible for their care should be measured by the extent to which the profile of these students can be transformed into a more healthy one. Certainly, their problems reveal the impact of modernity with its complex messages about uncertainty and doubt: the surviving elements from the drug counterculture...