Word: plaids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...casual glance around the bar will result in meeting the intense gazes of several individuals whose expressions seem to say "I am the one for you--at least for tonight." The ubiquitous plaid button-downs obstruct the only entertainment in the bar: a fuzzy giant-screen projection of "Jeopardy!" No one seems to care that the clues cannot be seen and Alex Trebek can barely be heard...
...raiser for the former Governor of Tennessee. Beaulieu, the third largest carpet manufacturer in the U.S., was a target of a Justice Department price-fixing probe, but was not charged. Investigators are now looking into whether or not the company reimbursed employees for contributions made to the plain-talking, plaid-shirted candidate's 1996 presidential campaign. It was precisely a scheme of that sort that cost one of Bob Dole's moneymen a $1 million fine...
...beginning of the film contains another visual treat: a sly reference to Saturday Night Fever. As Misha steps off the train in Moscow clad in beige plaid and an orange scraf, he participates in a crazed dance sequence before Ursulyak rapidly cuts to a more somberly dressed Misha, stripped of his fantasies, standing in a drizzle outside the train station. At the end of the film, Misha's brightly colored Moscow fades into gray...
...names of these men are shown only briefly at the start. For the rest of the film they are identified by their eccentric clothing (Ray's plaid shirt and butterfly bow tie) or coiffure (Dave's gravity-defying orange comb-over). And they are defined by their jobs; we think of them simply as "the lion tamer" or "the mole-rat guy," and watch their eyes spark as they speak of the work that lights their lives...
EDDIE BAUER Company loses plaid shirt in discrimination suit...