Word: mane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However sex came about, it is clearly responsible for many of the most remarkable features of the world around us, from the curvaceousness of human & females to the shimmering tails of peacocks to a lion's majestic mane. For the appearance of sex necessitated the evolution of a kaleidoscope of secondary characteristics that enabled males and females of each species to recognize one another and connect...
Another major shortcoming is the lack of space used for a full kitchen. Sure, it's convenient, but it can't be fully enjoyed due to Harvard's mane policy requiring all undergraduates to be on the full meal plan. I would much rather the kitchen space were used for another bedroom, so we wouldn't have to live in doubles all year...
...have historically moved from the bald to the hirsute: from the chrome-dome Lenin to the brush-cut Stalin; from Khrushchev to Brezhnev; from Andropov to Chernenko. Which brings everyone to Mikhail Gorbachev, who is nearly as bald as a darning egg, and to the upstart Boris Yeltsin, whose mane of graying locks ruffles conspicuously these days in the winds of change...
Better include wigs and costumes too. Anderson has a long, thick mane of strawberry blond hair, and directors always want her to forgo wearing hairpieces. But she feels she cannot play a character without an element of disguise. Last July, when she appeared in the inaugural performance at the new Bastille opera house in Paris, Anderson was unhappy with her specially designed gown from the French couturier Ungaro. She promptly began pulling it apart. To the rescue of French couture -- and that evening's gala -- rode "a nice man who got down on his knees and began pinning." His name...