Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quickly drink the vodka mixture, and then lay back and relax. Unlike many cult-related mass suicides in history, such as the People's Temple in Guyana, police say every member of the Heaven's Gate cult willingly died. The deaths proceeded in an orderly, methodical fashion. Each member was assigned to one of three groups; the first group of 15 took their lives and the second group of 15 members cleaned up after them. Then the second committed suicide with the help of the remaining nine, until only two were left to finish the job on themselves. They packed...
...busy to go shopping. If it's footwear you're after, Nordstrom's vast shoe sections boast up to 150,000 pairs from sizes 4 to 21. "I really like Nordstrom," says Kelly Chandler, 28, a marketing specialist at a Seattle radio station who has shopped at the fashion retailer's flagship store since she was a teenager. "They are always willing to accommodate you. When I go shopping, I always park my car near Nordstrom at the mall because I always start and end up there...
...problem with pret-a-porter collections is that unlike couture, the clothes are supposed to be worn by people other than the preternaturally skeletal and rich. This isn't as much fun for the designers. Perhaps that's why in Paris last week, fashion's famous let their wilder ideas go to models' heads. At Christian Dior, Oriental wigs covered up the famous tresses of the likes of CINDY CRAWFORD (far left). Givenchy stylists put others in hedge-like mop tops. Issey Miyake seemed to be aiming for the postmodern haystack, while KATE MOSS'S wedge (second from left) almost...
...second part when Saskia receives a letter from Thomas in Denmark inviting her to come spend the summer hiking north with him. Saskia and Jane take off for the land of the Phaiakians (the name of a god-like race in the Odyssey, whom Saskia in typical fashion maps onto her father's unknown people). The rest of the novel evolves into a series of journeys, both literal and metaphoric, which could be mapped to any of a number of myths and wind up being a somewhat ambivalent coming-of-age story, about running away to find yourself and coming...
After an autumn in which the Harvard football team was exciting, if only in its unpredictability, and a winter in which the women's basketball team won the Ivy League in record-breaking fashion and competed in the NCAA Tournament, the spring season seems remarkably unappealing...