Word: leathers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nifty Souvenir: All tourists must purchase the ubiquitous key chain, whether it is the one with your name underneath the picture of Mickey or the leather cut-out of Mickey standing next to your first initial. Woe is the unlucky soul who has the "unique" name (meaning one impossible to find on a key chain or other such souvenir accessory...
...Free spirit" is the label often applied to young Hall. It is an image he cultivates, showing up at meets in leather motorcycle pants and cruising around in a customized 1962 purple microbus. When the Dead's Jerry Garcia died, Hall swam his next meet with a black band traced on his arm in felt-tip pen. His devil-may-care attitude, however, masks a troubled past. As an adolescent, Hall was an indifferent student who clashed with his parents and took refuge at friends' homes. But Hall idolized his maternal grandfather, Charles Keating Jr., a one-time NCAA swimming...
...Robin Leach school of elocution. "I'm in the business of building trademarks." That's one reason why each restaurant is designed with a merchandise shop to tempt customers to buy such must-have souvenirs as jogging suits, $20 T shirts or baby baseball togs. Or a $399 leather jacket--just add it to the food bill. The logo gear is far more profitable than the edibles, with a markup as high as 200%, compared with 10% on perishable, labor-intensive meals...
...guitar for the all-writer band the Rock Bottom Remainders. The group covers a litany of rock favorites, dubbed "hard-listening music" by band member (and humor columnist) Dave Barry. To the tune of These Boots Are Made for Walking, fellow Remainder (and novelist) Amy Tan dons a tight leather jumpsuit and whips other band members. Says Barry: "We try to be moderately entertaining, so people don't know...
...says she had no epiphany, no revelation, but found solace in a theological solution. The restless, driven heart can find peace only when focused on God, and that is what Elizabeth Dole attempted to do. Now, on the campaign trail, she travels with a turquoise leather Bible that she tries to devote 30 minutes every day to reading. Says Robin Dole, the Senator's only daughter, who has been a regular on the road: "God is the most important thing in her life...