Word: getup
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...Narooma, a seaside holiday spot in one of Australia's bellwether marginal seats, Eden-Monaro. He's never been a party member; he just got sick of "complaining about politicians but not knowing how to do anything about it." So when a friend emailed him about online activist group GetUp, the 65-year-old joined and not long afterward hosted the get-together of local members. Last month they organized a debate between local candidates, with voters invited to submit video-recorded questions online - the first such debate in Australia. All this from an Internet skeptic: "I don't have...
...carrying the Green Cup was tall, thin, blonde and he appeared to be wearing shiny purple leggings,” Benedict said. “His main accomplice was a little shorter with a brown top hat...matching his brown and khaki detective safari getup.” Cabot, which tied with Lowell House for this year’s cup, was first in line to house the award. The theft incited a siege of e-mails, rife with accusations and calls for retaliation, over the Cabot House open list. Mather House, last year’s Green Cup winner...
...song, sits at his card table and doesn’t interact at all with the other two stars. The fashion in the video is perhaps its greatest strength: Mariah looks undeniably hot in the video. Her outfits feature a Vegas-style gold leotard, a strange burgundy bathing suit getup (complete with Louis Vuitton luggage), short shorts and a tied shirt, and a trench coat. The video functions more as a frame for Mariah than anything else. The setting, music, and guests are all quite dissonant. Sorry Mariah, but “Say Somethin?...
...bassist) and Tom (a bassist in another Swedish band) Malmros avoid the high-brow, high-budget traipsing of Coldplay’s nerdy video for “The Scientist.” No sir, it’s just good, clean (cheap) fun for THIS European pop-rock getup. As it turns out, this Malmros team is responsible for ALL of the group’s videos, which combine a delightful low-budget honesty with some startlingly artistic cinemachoreotography. The group’s frontman, who is a dead-on Swedish Jason Schwartzman/Luke Wilson mash-up, is lost...
...below, replaces the standard green, above, as well as desert and cold-weather fatigues. The new duds substitute Velcro and zippers for buttons, which used to snag on gear. Those are just some of the 22 changes the Army has made. The soldiers' favorite updates so far: the $85 getup is looser, machine washable and wrinkle free. --By Jeremy Caplan