Word: getup
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Badass political theorist Michael Sandel was spotted heading into Border Café with his family on Saturday, sporting a raincoat in place of his usual jacket-and-tie getup. Wait—so he doesn’t sleep in Sanders? . . . Not one, but two cars spun out of control at the same spot on Soldiers Field Road across the Charles early Sunday morning. Brake squeals and sirens interrupted the usual three a.m. sounds of vomiting fratguys and awkward “goodnights”... After several pundits floated her name as a potential Supreme Court nominee, Harvard Law School...
...really born out of an inability to think of anything else,” Biagioli said of his getup, which also included a sign modeled after a Kansas City Republican rally where Bush supporters waved posters equating Kerry with Osama Bin Laden. “I like to think of my costume as a parody of the lunacy of some of these right-wing voters...
Former Miss Americas pass by, valiant and coiffed. Last year’s queen, Erika Harold, towers in a skin-tight American-flag getup, surrounded by red, white and blue potted silk flowers. Miss Florida shakes her fake-fur stole, dripping with plastic oranges...
...Black Entertainment Television or an ESPN postgame press conference, and you're bound to see rapper Nelly in a bright orange Spirits of St. Louis jersey (the basketball team folded in 1976) or Tampa Bay Buccaneers football star Warren Sapp in a Kelly green, early 1980s Philadelphia Eagles getup. (Sapp wore a series of M&N throwbacks--which retail for $250 to $470--throughout Super Bowl week.) Lebron James, the nation's top high school basketball player, got suspended in late January for accepting two throwbacks as gifts. Boosted by such celebrity consumers, sales for family-owned M&N have...
Children is best enjoyed if one doesn't take it too seriously, though. (Sarandon plays a juicily over-the-top villainess, in a getup that makes her look like an evil B-52s singer.) You could write an encyclopedia detailing all the Tolkienesque mythology, invented religions and backstory behind the Dune novels--in fact, someone did--but the script does a good job of illustrating the action for the screen without getting bogged down in background. If you're a newcomer, you're better off ignoring the myriad guilds and secret societies at play and enjoying it more...