Word: miniskirt
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...week, traveling from Dallas to Houston to Austin to New Orleans. "I was surprised by her face," says Worrell. "It is beautiful and strange, very pure, and free of all indecision and self-doubt." Backstage before a concert, Madonna tried on a white leather vest and a miniskirt layered with fringe. Recalls Worrell: "Twirling before a mirror, fringe flying, she sang out, 'If I ever married a cowboy, this is what I'd wear!' And she would...
...like putting a miniskirt on the refurbished Statue of Liberty. Or painting the White House red. Or scribbling graffiti on a Norman Rockwell. If there has been any unchanging reality in the America of the past century--or indeed in a good part of the known world--it has been the presence and the unique taste of Coca-Cola. But last week executives of the Atlanta-based company announced that, as they see it, change goes better with Coke. Starting in May, they will introduce a new, slightly sweeter and smoother Coke that will totally supplant the old Coke...
...campus during the recent Junior Parents' Weekend, were a plethora of preppy classics, from crewneck sweaters over jeans and corduroys to Brooks Brothers and J. Press sports jackets and rep ties. Sparking the classic mix: blouson or jean jackets, retro-looking ski sweaters, and the very occasional flash of miniskirt-bared legs. Adding their own ineffable brand of casual chic were a group of French students touring Harvard, wearing the born-again preppie garb which, ironically, is also the latest rage in Paris...
...Press-Scimitar was once a lusty voice in a bawdy town on a river bluff. A typically irreverent headline: MOUNDS OF EVIDENCE BARED IN TOPLESS CASE! It set new lows in participatory journalism. In the 1960s it bedecked its most fetching female reporter in the stingiest miniskirt available, sent her sashaying down Main Street, photographed the event and published the pictures across the top of Page One under the screaming pronouncement LOVE IS A MINI-SPLENDORED THING! For all this silliness, it had a down-home feel to it, and readers who stuck with it professed to prefer its casualness...
Decked out in mesh stockings, spike heels and a nun's habit slashed to miniskirt length, Jack Fertig, a San Francisco transvestite, campaigned for a seat on the eleven-member San Francisco board of supervisors last November under the alias of Sister Boom Boom. On the ballot he had listed his occupation as "nun of the above," and he got 23,124 votes. This was not enough to win a supervisor's seat, but enough to encourage him to enter this fall's mayoral election. Also declaring: "Lady Lillian Chaucer-Peace, gentlewoman," "James Bond Zero, political exorcist...