Word: lacing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Half a world away, Yang Rong manages the privately run Jinhua Asset Underwear Co., with a factory tucked into verdant hills a few hundred miles from Shanghai that exports some of the world's sexiest lace bras. On his shop floor, surrounded by 200 young workers outfitted in pink kerchiefs and aprons, Yang points to the wall on which he has taped a laminated list of rules issued by Walt Disney Co., with which Asset Underwear has a contract to make clothing featuring Disney characters. The list prohibits, among other things, indentured servitude and "slavery." Yang thinks that's funny...
Optimism sells, as Bill Clinton would be the first to tell you. Even Dean is trying harder to lace his anger with sunshine, telling New York Times editors last week, "America's always been the country of hope and of high moral principles and ideals. Let's hope again." If you're fighting the status quo, it's better to be a happy warrior...
...Racks and racks of clothes fill a warehouse-sized room. A plethora of label-less dresses (all under $20) tempt even the most frugal consumer with a range of options—there are Jackie-O dresses, Pucci-esque prints, ’80s party dresses, brocades, silks, sequins, lace and much more. If you are running off to Reno you can even pick up an economical wedding dress...
...still relevant because your “Satisfaction” striptease is forever in my Shared Folder and fantasy file, because my stomach still plays Double Dutch when I hear “I’m a Slave 4 U” and envision the shocking pink lace on leather. It’s the videos, the performances, the packaging that bring us to our knees and you to the pages of Forbes. Props for losing the brown before we lost our collective erection...
...Third-year law student Gene T. Gurkoff wears shorts, lace-up wrestling boots and a Harvard Boxing tank top that reads “‘My writing is nothing. My boxing is everything.’—Ernest Hemingway” on the back. A set of tennis sweatbands is looped around his elbows, and on the side of his head, a vein bulges...