Word: mannequins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...merry prankster, full of jokes and wisecracks. When his Nike representative's cell phone beeps, Bubka snatches it up and informs the caller that the official is too tied up with girls to talk. While perusing socks at Macy's, he seizes a pool cue from a mannequin and declares, "This is my new pole!" Then he giggles over the fact that he has accidentally wandered into the wrong dressing room...
...Neiman's. Fashion advertising is rarely this conceptual or dark. In brilliantly composed photographs, the ad lays out a young woman's dream of becoming a model. Soon she is larger than life, literally towering over buildings and people. Pity her fate, though: she winds up a storefront mannequin...
...second act, the full character is fleshed out, as B and C reappear in 1950s and 1920s dress, respectively. The dowdyish assistant has become the sophisticated, fiftyish A, full of confidence; the cynical young lawyer is now the naive and romantic 26-year-old A. While a mannequin with an oxygen mask lies in the bed upstage, A herself returns onstage-- no longer senile and sickly, she is in control and able to fully speak her thoughts and able to fully speak her thoughts and share the wisdom possessed upon reaching the final stage of her life...
...Tina Turner mannequin still needed a hair tease, and Madonna's gold bustier had yet to be mounted. But James Henke, the chief curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, had a more pressing problem one day last week. Showing a journalist around the museum, he was stopped by a group of workers who were about to install a Jimi Hendrix guitar on the wall. Hendrix, who was left-handed, played right-handed guitars with the strings on upside down. But the guitar they were about to hang was a right-handed...
Often described as a mannequin, remote and elegant, she seemed determined to underscore the bloody reality of death by gunshot. At Parkland, where the President was taken by ambulance, every time the Secret Service urged her out, she walked right back in, circling the trauma room. Dr. Marion Jenkins, now 76, remembers that in the minutes after the shooting, "I noticed that she was carrying one hand cupped over the other hand. She nudged me with her left elbow and then with her right hand handed me a good-sized chunk of the President's brain. She didn...