Word: plaids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think Lamar Alexander should have kept wearing that plaid shirt?" they ask. "How about Paul Wellstone's beard? Did Elizabeth Dole smile too much...
Abramian, a small man with gray hair, dresses in a baseball cap and plaid shirt--much like the other students in the Northeastern University library...
...America, or at least those who have begun to follow the race, responding to Clinton's dissembling? The answer is a search for authenticity. We want our pols real, genuine. Phony is out. Look at Lamar Alexander. This year, unlike in '96, he skipped the plaid shirts and the exclamation mark, but the artifice still rankled. He's gone, as is Elizabeth Dole with her syrupy smile. G.O.P. consultant Frank Luntz says he's never seen such low tolerance for packaging...
...players. Whether on campus or off campus, "Chicks dig the duds." The Kroks still display a framed photograph of a concert they sang at an all-girls Catholic school in South America, in which a few tuxedoed bodies stick out from a sea of hundreds of gushing and plaid young Catholic ladies. After each gig, the Kroks invariably make their way to the audience and lap up a few compliments, smiling broadly to middle-aged ladies who praise "the all-male sound." Interestingly, the fact that the Kroks is a boys' club isn't the only obstacle between them...
Others, dressed in pink bathrobes or plaid pajama pants, gave polite nods and then closed their doors...