Word: handkerchiefed
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Amid all the gaudy handkerchief hems and epaulets, Nancy Kerrigan's simple, lemon-yellow costume for the original program stood out as the kind of thing Grace Kelly might have worn if she'd been a figure skater...
...their earlier descriptions of the Justice Department's Florida case as a law-enforcement debacle. "I was personally | infuriated," Blum said. He argued that the plea bargain gave B.C.C.I. immunity from future prosecutions based on evidence in the case -- a charge that Justice disputes. Von Raab, sporting a yellow handkerchief that drooped flower-like from his breast pocket, called the settlement "a shameless agreement" and "a disaster in terms of the punishment that should have been meted out." He said B.C.C.I. had raked in some $200 million from the money- laundering scheme, which undercover customs agents exposed in a sting...
Most people know only one thing about Kuwait: that George Bush has pledged to free it. Nevertheless, a pernicious notion has taken hold. Kuwait, it is alleged, was an arrogant, undemocratic handkerchief of a country no one would care about were it not for the oil beneath its sands. Is that view accurate? And if so, could the nation change after its liberation? Kuwaitis themselves have a vested interest in the answers to those questions -- but so does the rest of the world, and particularly the half-million allied troops massed for war in the gulf. For now that Saddam...
...attracting heavy he-man literary comparisons to Jim Harrison and others. But while Rick Bass, 30, a Southerner who now lives in Montana, can fight the bears with the best of them, there are more unusual reasons to praise him. His writing is so assured that he can do handkerchief tricks on the page. Just try to spot the magic. His characters, mostly country people, along with some layabout Houstoners ("We drank margaritas as often as we could stand it"), are portrayed with rare tenderness; Bass is even tolerant of his blackhearted men. The title story is the most ambitious...
...Prince's slums, a truer picture of Haiti's plight emerges in the countryside, where some 75% of the country's 6.3 million people live. Land is both the hope of these peasants and the yoke that dooms them to poverty. Over the years, land parcels have shrunk to handkerchief size through repeated division among descendants and illegal seizures by landowners. Even the practice of voodoo has had an effect: some peasants have been forced to sell their land to pay for elaborate religious rituals for dead relatives...