Word: plaids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the late afternoon of April 3, a small private plane landed at El Paso International Airport and disgorged a garish passenger, accompanied by three grim-faced men. Clad in a sports shirt, country-club-plaid slacks and loafers, the 6-ft. 1-in., 310-lb. Mexican sauntered over to a group of men waiting on the tarmac, smiled as if he were collecting a golf trophy and proffered his hand. "I am Dr. Humberto Alvarez Machain," he announced. "I know who you are," snapped special agent Hector Berrellez of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. "You have the right...
Then Baldwin and the Whiffles -- an Ur-nerd quartet in plaid cummerbunds and smug smiles -- launch into a rendition of Sh-Boom at the charm-school talent show, and Cry-Baby takes off to parody paradise. It becomes a real musical (new songs, production numbers) and a careering melodrama: Grease with grit. Cliches collide, and so do jalopies; lightning strikes; the jailhouse rocks. Lovers lose themselves in a French-kissing dance that would have been banned on Bandstand...
Danny's search brings his beautiful wife back to his arms. But as they stroll on the deck of the Queen Mary, he finds himself turning away, drawn to the smoky lounge where women with too many ruffles dance with men in plaid jackets. He longs to be like them, so attuned to each other they could dance without music, as close as "spoons nestling in the wife's silver drawer." It is this yearning for the absolute safety of love that saves him in the end from Lauren's deadly designs, and from himself...
...perpetrator, described as a white man wearing a red cap and a plaid shirt, entered the Alewife branch of the Bank of Boston at about 12:30 p.m., passed a note to a teller and left with a bag of cash, police said...
...crowd. Until they start listening to what they don't want to hear, we will continue to have a campus devoid of debate. Passers-by Harvard Yard will just hear the sound and fury of the PC-dressed in their uniforms of ripped jeans and old plaid shirts--signifying nothing, preaching at each other about tolerance, while the PW sit in Lamont and read the National Review...