Word: getups
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Andrew strolls into Spice with an air of chilled-out expectancy. His piercings are many, and his artsy, punk, black t-shirt and jeans getup screams VES. As his blind date later reports, upon first seeing Andrew, he “thought of Campbell’s Soup—‘mmm mmm good.’” Restaurantgoers are similarly impressed; one asked the photographer whether Andrew was the porn star featured in FM last week. This poetry-loving, southern-bred Leverett House sophomore has agreed to go on a blind date with a gentleman...
...bully. Picked on fellows. He loved to fight. But I never saw him in a getup with a fellow his own size. He had a kind of a wild tendency toward violence. I don't know why, because he was a very gifted writer. Who knows what prompts people to write or draw...
...more interested in the "Song of Myself," relentlessly hawking their new releases. At least Missy Elliott (lowered from the ceiling via chandelier) had the grace to remember the singer Aaliyah with an airbrushed portrait on the back of her white leather jacket. Across the backside of Macy Gray's getup...
...been a body in the trunk or a pack of hounds on his trail or 16 years on the lam. He looked healthy, untroubled, his face ruddy. He played with a silver goatee and casually acknowledged Flodin, who smiled from the back of the courtroom, wearing a bright layered getup that looked as if it were stolen from the closet of Pippi Longstocking. The Unicorn had had a long time to write himself a new speech, but it must have been 16 years of writer's block. Painting himself large and important, vintage Ira, he dropped such names as Alvin...
Indeed, it was just such a getup--the infamously skimpy outfit Britney wore at last September's MTV Video Music Awards--that confirmed the star's transformation from perky ingenue to pop tart. In 1999, Britney was a former Mouseketeer with a No. 1 album, ...Baby, One More Time. By the time she released her second album last spring, Oops!...I Did It Again, she had grown up, gaining breasts (by what means remains unclear) and losing all inhibition. Britney, 19, who was just co-host at the American Music Awards, is scheduled to start shooting a movie in March...