Word: pelts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hats been so popular. Manhattan-based Jack Seifter and Sons, the largest U.S. manufacturer of the caps, has seen sales double in the past several months. During 1988 the company sold 500 of the authentic caps (retail price: $100) and 10,000 versions made with fake fur or rabbit pelt and a real ringtail...
...might be added that many women find his crooked grin and the glint in his hazel eyes downright sexy. But it is also true that in preparing for Big, one scene of which displays all but a few centimeters of Hanks' pelt, he had to work out for weeks at a Manhattan gym, huffing and puffing to reduce that upholstered posterior, expand that narrow chest and flatten that soft stomach. Even so, he will not give Arnold Schwarzenegger any competition. In fact he found himself gasping at the end of a tough scene in which he and Robert Loggia dance...
...many as 2000 spectators are expected to line the banks of the river to pelt participants with rotten vegetables and other projectiles in an effort to spice up the event...
House newletters and the Yard Bulletin havecarried notices from the administration askingthat students not use projectiles to pelt therafts, Frenkel said. The Bulletin said extrapolice from the Metropolitan District Commissionand Boston will supervise the event...
...invite the silenced speakers back. If students on the Right were to take a cue from students on the Left and, on the grounds that Professor Kennedy's recent remarks were offenseive and insensitive, were to disrupt his lectures or blockade him in his classroom or office, or pelt him with vegetables, there can be little doubt that the university would rush to his defense, and rightly so, in the name of academic freedom. Indeed, last year's incident at Dartmouth shows that when right-wing students dare to copy the tactics of the Left, university officials may come down...