Word: packed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...locals. Wardrobe-wise, the fashion consensus seems to be black, black and some black eyeliner with maybe a little black lipstick. Half the patrons seem to mysteriously choose orange as an alternative. A woman with blue hair in an orange Guttermouth t-shirt reads some book about alchemy. A pack of men in makeup hovers by the register. We argue over whether the student at the next table is busy reinventing quantum physics or whether he's just stuck on Matter in the Universe homework sheet #5. A covey of high school nose-piercers play with their napkins. A couple...
...office today. Gingrich, who said his boyhood dream had been to be a zookeeper, invited Hanna to drop by with a few friends, which also included a python and a poisonous African toad. Although Hanna normally includes a tiger in his entourage, Capitol Police balked at letting him pack a tranquilizer gun. Instead, Hanna brought a newt. "Notice how small and unprepossessing they are," Gingrich said, with a smile, as the newt stood on his hand...
...forms; 1,800 had already been completed and returned. His deputy, James Groth, sat in a room surrounded by them, furiously processing, with no end in sight. "My family has almost forgotten what I look like," Groth said. A bemused hostage to his fellow citizens' need to pack clandestine heat, Groth has been taken somewhat by surprise...
...stoked the success of death-penalty campaigns and "Three strikes and you're in." The desire for self-preservation in the face of an increase in random violence and understaffed police forces can express itself, without paradox, in both an assault-weapons ban and in the desire to pack one's own handgun. Says Gary Huttenhoff, a real estate appraiser who has just picked up his laminated wallet-size permit from Sheriff Anderson's office in El Paso County: "The police take care of the public, not the individual. This is a great chance for people to defend themselves...
...Elmo's Fire with the film's director, Joel Schumacher. We attempted to show what life is like for people in their early 20s, when many of them come to grips with their adult identities. The actors who starred in that movie did not become the so-called Brat Pack until after the movie was made and the media had labeled them as such. I did not fully realize the harm of this term until I read your article on new young stars, with its chart updating the careers of the stars of St. Elmo's Fire. What...