Word: fashionability
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...padded, well-padded. And that's where I came up with the expression "traditionally built." It sort of flowed from a discussion she had about traditional notions of beauty in Africa, which would tend to celebrate fleshiness. It indicates that she's not going to be swayed by passing fashion. Her build is traditional. It shows that she is comfortable with herself, and she will find a good way of describing the way she is, rather than a negative...
...been eaten for millennia, but it fell deeply out of fashion shortly after Captain Arthur Phillip sailed ashore in 1788 with six cows, 29 sheep and 717 English convicts to form the first British colony in New South Wales. Non-native herd animals replaced the nomadic Skippy as the continent's meat source of choice. Australia began exporting kangaroo in 1959, and many an Aussie dog has feasted on it for decades. But it wasn't until the 1990s that most Australian states legalized the domestic sale of kangaroo as people food. John Kelly, executive director of the Kangaroo Industry...
...measure. That's part of the reason the TIME 100 list of the most influential people in the world is so diverse and eclectic. How do you gauge the influence of a molecular biologist vs. that of a politician, weigh the relative impact of a tennis player and a fashion designer or an architect and a minister? You can't, of course, and we don't try. But we look for people whose ideas, discoveries, talent and, yes, power shape and transform our world. These are our modern stars who shape our destiny...
...photography budget was also deep. In true Condé Nast fashion, the photographers were always top notch and well paid. Photo spreads for small stories in the front of book could easily run to $50,000 each. For one story, the magazine flew a photographer to eight locations across the country. Lavish amounts were spent on cover stories that became inside stories...
Talent and intellect aside, Carpio also possesses a physical beauty that is difficult to ignore. “She’s a really attractive woman with a fantastic fashion sense,” Henderson says. “She has a distinctive style that I think is part of her being a rising star. She’s very hip and knows what’s going on.” This professor just might be cooler than her own students...