Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Singh points out, "there is not a piece of textile here that is not produced today." The costumes come from 16 former royal families, and a few had to be returned for use during the preparation of the exhibit. One of Singh's assistants was married in a bridal outfit with a veil embroidered in gold that looks, to a Western eye, like nothing so much as formal wear for a fairy-tale princess...
...Though Crisp claims to own only hand-me-downs, he wears them as if they were 7th Avenue originals. He cuts quite a pose in his shiny green and black lame suit, black fedora hat and his longish light purple hair. Though this may not be the type of outfit that will win votes in the Boston area, Crisp is ever the politician...
DECKED OUT in a brown beehive, several inches of Maybelline Moisture Whip mascara and a baby-blue satin Rhinestone cowgirl outfit, country and western hopeful Patsy Cline (Jessica Lange) gazes out into the audience of the proverbial roadhouse-on-the-way-to-no-where and beings to croon, "I'm crazy, crazy for being soooo lonelyyyy." A star is born. The face of country music and the world has been changed forever. Or so Sweet Dreams, Director Karol Reisz's new film chronicling the ups and downs of Patsy Cline, country music's pre-Loretta Lynn sweetheart, would have...
...witness is another graying officer, Harry Bright, who now lies in an apparently irreversible coma. Also hampering the investigation are a midget who hopes for intimate contact with large ladies, and a Palm Springs houseboy who scouts gay bars for murder suspects in his best butch outfit. Without a program, the bad guys are hard to separate from the good guys, and Blackpool has a lot of trouble finding and confronting the truth. The ultimate message is bitter, but for the first time in seven novels the author's badge carriers contemplate suicide only briefly. They are survivors transformed...
...driven and countersunk, Judith has earned the admiration and respect of the crew by swinging her own hammer. That the firm does not make much money on the Souweine job suggests how hard it is to get rich in the construction business. Still, the Corps is a young outfit that needs the work. Jim, Ned, Alex and Richard are equal partners on an honor system that requires each to dock his pay if he does not think he has done his share. They allot themselves $14 an hour and split whatever profit is left over...