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...manicure, now that I have this diamond ring." At 39, Naomi Judd had no great familiarity with gems or with manicures--this was her first--and she was barely getting accustomed to celebrity. "I heard you were making it big as a singer, and I pictured you in a gingham dress," said a friend who was also getting a Jane's do-up. "But," she added, after a neatly timed pause, "no one ever told me you were any good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In the Heart of the Country | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Amount of the winning bid for Judy Garland's blue gingham dress from The Wizard of Oz, sold at auction last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: May 9, 2005 | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

...lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, walked timidly into the Harvard president’s outer office...

Author: By Nalina Sombuntham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New Kid on the Block | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

Occasionally Brendan chimes in with a funny one-liner or a question for Elana. But he seems distant and confused, usually entering the conversation only to insult Nick. Brendan, understated in a gray long-sleeve oxford, points out Nick’s pink gingham shirt. “He’s a sketchy guy,” Brendan leans in to tell Elana, motioning towards Nick. Brendan then returns to sitting and listening to Nick talk. He later scores a point by talking about a roommate from Redwood City, Calif. “That’s literally, like...

Author: By Elizabeth F. Maher and Ben C. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER2S | Title: FM's Dismissed | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

...Opsahl's website there is a photograph of his mother Myrna. She wears a sensible bob and a dimpled smile. Her gingham blouse is buttoned all the way to the top. The grainy black-and-white image is a throwback to an earlier time. But her son's words running beside it are both clear and current: "We know who was there when she was shotgunned to death... Twenty-six years is long enough to have waited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle-Aged Radicals, Plucked from Suburbia | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

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