Word: handkerchief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great day for it," said Ficara, pulling a small red handkerchief out of thin...
...knows, anything goes. And now what's going is a new wrinkle in hose credited by some fashion experts to Ralph Lauren. In magazine ads, Lauren's young line, called Ralph, features a model straddling a chair. She wears a skirt about the length of a large handkerchief, and her stockings, such as they are, reach only to her thighs. Thus is born a fad. The stockings are called thigh-highs and a lot of women are making a run on them...
...frustrating. We'd get a white politician that would come in and promise everything, and then when they won, they didn't know you." He is receiving friends at his business. His tone is soft, almost apologetic, but his small handlebar mustache and his pink tie and matching handkerchief suggest a healthy self-image. Some wonder whether perhaps he is too moderate. His response may relieve those who resent his judicially mandated rise, not to mention its newfangled engineering. "I'm only one person on the board," he says. "I've got to work within the system. Sure, I could...
...respite from a family feud of royal proportions. Just minutes earlier, Pakistani national police had prevented her mother from making the same gesture -- by firing tear gas and bullets at the 63-year-old widow and her supporters who had gathered at the family mansion nearby. Raising a white handkerchief in a sign of peace, Nusrat Bhutto asked police to allow her supporters to tend to the wounded. Angrily, she compared her daughter to General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, the dictator who had sent her husband to the very grave she was now barred from visiting...
Both men have well-oiled promo machines, with Pavarotti's the more unbridled. His white handkerchief is as familiar as Michael Jackson's glove. But as Beverly Sills, an acute observer of the opera scene, says, "Forget the hype. Once they get out there, they have to produce, or the hype will just vanish...