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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Goodwill, dodging a rather large woman trying on a kelly-green floor-length coat, she proves herself to be thrifty indeed. After discarding heaps of clothing, oblivious to an errant customer singing in the background, Chen finally settles (after some heckling with the Goodwill cashiers) on a sheer white nightgown, a gold and black sweater-vest, two white table runners, two grey T-shirts, a black sweater with gold buttons, and a black lace cami. Back in Adams two hours later, Chen is all business, cutting up everything except the nightgown into fabric circles, which she proceeds to sew into...

Author: By Nicola C. Perlman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kathleen H. Chen '09 | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

Sega Night Trap Thugs enter a bathroom, grab a young woman wearing a flimsy nightgown, then attach a hook to her neck to suck out the blood. This is a video game? Retailer Toys ''R'' Us decided it was not and withdrew the product from its 581 stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST PRODUCTS OF 1993 | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...drags on her cigarette, she tells of a Miss Carry who is between 90 and 100 years old, refused to leave for Rita and is all alone in her little home around the corner. Lykins goes and knocks on the door, and a wizened old woman in a pink nightgown answers the door. "I have water. I don't have no power," she says, insisting she's fine. Is she on any medicine? No, she says-which Lykins says is highly unusual for someone of her evident age. He makes a note to flag her for more attention from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside a FEMA Search and Rescue Team | 9/27/2005 | See Source »

...finding parking space, spending hours to find the objects he seeks and quite possibly dealing with surly salesclerks in jampacked retail stores. Those catalogues, offering everything from $29 anoraks to $4 Zippo lighters, have become a major factor in the U.S. economy. As subtly and sneakily as a falling nightgown strap from the Victoria's Secret lingerie catalogue, they have exerted a refreshing influence on American consumers and their style. More than 5 billion of those catalogues will be mailed in 1982 ... The average American household receives 40 catalogues a year ... To an ever increasing number of consumers with neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 22 Years Ago In Time | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...tend to wear things that I don't care about getting food on. There are days when I'm alone with James Wilke, and I'm not out of my nightgown before 3 in the afternoon. Your own vanity is lower on the food chain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Access: Rise and Shine | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

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