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...Besides, men are frustrated that we don't have our own Oprah. Ours are all embarrassing flameouts like Robert Bly, or the Promise Keepers, or Al Gore the week that Naomi Wolf made him wear flannel. The best we have right now are Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel of The Man Show, and those guys wouldn't even be able to fill out their live audience if they didn't liberally sprinkle the studio with pole dancers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life After Oprah | 3/18/2002 | See Source »

...memories it would evoke of his days in the military mess halls. He removes his puffy green jacket (having been acclimated to American winters from his residency at the prestigious University of Iowa International Writing Program), revealing a red long-john shirt underneath another made of flannel. The sideburns dangling from his mop of unkempt hair show the faintest wisps of gray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Israel’s Hippest Voice Speaks Out | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

...memories it would evoke of his days in the military mess halls. He removes his puffy green jacket (having been acclimated to American winters from his residency at the prestigious University of Iowa International Writing Program), revealing a red long-john shirt underneath another made of flannel. The sideburns dangling from his mop of unkempt hair show the faintest wisps of gray...

Author: By Amit R. Paley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Israel's Hippest Voice Speaks Out | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

...students, praised by Alexander as “diehards,” attended the speech in red and black checked flannel shirts, Alexander’s signature outfit during the 1996 presidential campaign...

Author: By Rina Fujii, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alexander: Raise Voter Turnout | 10/24/2001 | See Source »

...book by rock journalist Michael Azerrad, "Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981 - 1991" (Little, Brown) catalogs the labors of 13 `80s bands with whom Nirvana and countless other `90s acts shared an aesthetic (distorted guitar with a minimum of studio effects, flannel), and without whom "alternative" would never have become a household word. It narrates, down to the homemade posters and tour van repairs, how they gradually built up an audience large enough to make record labels and critics take notice, so that Nevermind and other `90s albums could have a shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bands that Made Nirvana | 7/31/2001 | See Source »

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