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Word: lacing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...somewhere stealing hubcaps. Instead, all of them, hundreds of thousands of young blossoms whose actual ages run from a low of about eight to a high of perhaps 25, are saving up their baby- sitting money to buy cross-shaped earrings and fluorescent rubber bracelets like Madonna's, white lace tights that they will cut off at the ankles and black tube skirts that, out of view of their parents, they will roll down several turns at the waist to expose their middles and the waistbands of the pantyhose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Madonna Rocks the Land | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

Does anyone remember underwear? The boldest of the Wanna Be's prowl thrift shops looking for ancient, bulletproof black lace bras and corsets, which they wear slapdash under any sort of gauzy shirt or found-in-the-attic jacket. They tie great floppy rags in their frazzled hair, which when really authentic is blond with dark roots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Madonna Rocks the Land | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

London Correspondent Mary Cronin spends many of her free weekends haunting English antique fairs. "Three years ago," she says, "I used to buy only & bric-a-brac, which was all I could afford. I remember admiring, but not buying, a pair of beautiful Victorian lace curtains that cost (pounds)45, or $84 then. Two months ago, I became the proud owner of two pairs of those curtains for $80. Hog heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Apr. 22, 1985 | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

London Correspondent Mary Cronin spends many of her free weekends haunting English antique fairs. "Three years ago," she says, "I used to buy only bric-a-brac, which was all I could afford. I remember admiring, but not buying, a pair of beautiful Victorian lace curtains that cost (pounds)45, or $84 then. Two months ago, I became the proud owner of two pairs of those curtains for $80. Hog heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Apr. 22, 1985 | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

Varsity basketball upstart Keith Webster '87 has his own careful routine as well. "I tuck in my shirt and lace my sneakers in a certain way," he says. "Everything is in a certain routine pattern." Webster also says that if the pattern is not followed exactly, it will "hang on my mind...

Author: By Harry B. Lerner, | Title: Psyching Up With Superstition | 4/10/1985 | See Source »

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