Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before he actually saw the film. In the version of ID4 that I saw, the country wasn't just dragged down, much of it was demolished by a fire-breathing spacecraft resembling a large piece of pita bread. Millions of our compatriots were blown away in a quite grisly fashion. The First Lady, not a bit like Liddy, was zapped by aliens. There's no explicit sex, but the hero is a commitmentphobe who sleeps with a woman who is not his wife in a house with a small child in the next room...
Trumbull, for example, said he's viewing the party's bitter strife about platform language as a chance to "really get people excited...because something is actually going to be decided there, in a fairly open fashion...
Then came the Parade of Nations, part fashion show (grass skirts and blazers), part geography lesson (the Comoros?), part expression that all is forgiven (Saddam Hussein's son heads the tiny Iraqi delegation). The parade lasted far longer than expected, but finally the U.S. delegation came out, led by 286-lb. wrestler Bruce Baumgartner, who made flag carrying look ridiculously easy, and trailed by Shaquille O'Neal, whose new $121 million contract with the Los Angeles Lakers wasn't exactly what Baron de Coubertin had in mind...
...Fashion-design house Donna Karan International, considered the pick of the recent litter, dropped a stitch or two since its IPO rose from $24 to $28 at its June debut. The stock ended last week...
...clock news as "a large-scale psychiatric disaster." Students clustered in hallways weeping; classes sat numb and silent; teachers broke down at an after-school meeting. Says math teacher Crosby: "It was the roughest teaching day I've ever had." Because teenagers--impulsive and susceptible to fashion in all things--are considered particularly vulnerable to copycat behavior when it comes to suicide, counselors made a point of talking with students who had been in each of Amber's and Alicia's classes. Any attempts to memorialize the girls were discouraged; candles and flowers that appeared at the spot where Amber...