Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come from 16 former royal families, and a few had to be returned for use during the preparation of the exhibit. One of Singh's assistants was married in a bridal outfit with a veil embroidered in gold that looks, to a Western eye, like nothing so much as formal wear for a fairy-tale princess...
When the going gets tough around the hotel pool or restaurant, the tough go shopping, and West Hollywood's boutiques offer everything from formal gowns to studded leather bikini shorts for men. There's a baker who specializes in anatomically explicit cakes, and the Pleasure Chest serves as a hardware store for the sexually adventurous. For those with more homely tastes, West Hollywood functions as the West Coast capital of the interior-design and home-furnishing trades, which are headquartered in the 530-ft.-long, six-story Pacific Design Center, sculpted of neon blue glass and known locally...
...Marcos and Aquino prepared last week for the formal launching of their campaigns, a cloud hung over the entire enterprise. Marcos opponents have filed ten petitions before the Supreme Court seeking to cancel the election because the President has refused to resign before it is held, as required under the constitution. The petitioners hope to delay the vote and thereby win the opposition more campaign time. But the ploy could backfire. If it begins to appear that either opposition candidate might outpoll the President, the Supreme Court, which is dominated by Marcos appointees, might declare the election null and void...
Three Harvard undergraduates were arraigned Monday on charges of disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace at a Saturday night Wellesley College formal dance that was part of their initiation into a final club...
...students, Robert B. Cleary Jr. '87-'88, Michael W. De Voe '87 and Richard M. Oehmler Jr. '85-'86, were attending the winter formal at Tower Court, a student dormitory, as part of their initiation into the D.U. Club, one of Harvard's nine all-male final clubs...