Word: leathers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First and foremost is the fact that while my brother may be buying leather jackets and cell phones right now, he cannot buy himself a college education, even if it has a sticker price. And that education is not just a debt that will begin accruing interest as soon as I graduate, it is also an investment. As Harvard economist Caroline Hoxby can tell you, my education's yield will far exceed the initial cost. If you have not taken Social Analysis 10, "The Principles of Economics," that means that I will probably earn back the amount of money...
...Issatu's father is humble, polite and upset. "Any time she goes somewhere with us, I want to cry because they have destroyed her looks," he says. Issatu went to Handicap International's clinic in Freetown and got a leather strap to help her hold a spoon on the end of her right arm. She smiles as she shows it off. "Before, I used to eat by holding the spoon between my arms," she says...
...responsible for the distractingly elegant ensembles worn by Rene Russo in The Thomas Crown Affair, is in any way a proponent of the garish. The Kors aesthetic is one of beguiling luxury, and his Celine line--with its dramatic but unfussy suits, plush cashmere turtleneck sweaters, buttery leather coats and simply cut beaded gowns--is meant for the woman more than pleased with her mutual-fund performance but not about to make a big show of it. And not about to take off for Pluto anytime soon either. WHEN In stores...
Maybe it's just that in Utah, joining a social order devoted to clean living doesn't exactly distinguish you. Firebombing meat and leather outlets, using pipe bombs on a fur-trading office and setting minks free, however--as Straight Edgers and closely linked animal liberationists have been accused of doing over the past several years--tend to drop you from consideration for membership in the church choir...
...sleek, steel-framed bikes were symbols of romantic escapism. Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn putted through Rome on a Vespa in Roman Holiday; it was a favorite toy of Hollywood's elite, including Gary Cooper and Jayne Mansfield. In 1960s England, while big, grease-sputtering Harleys were ridden by leather-clad Rockers, elegant Vespas were the signature of their archrivals--and regular rumble opponents--the fashionable Mods...