Word: polishers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beyond providing an excuse for lots of people to go to far-flung parts of the world to polish off bottles of Asti Spumante, the approaching millennium has also served as inspiration for goofy futurism, much of which has been in evidence on the runways. When designers unveiled their fall '99 collections earlier this year, many churned out garments of rubber and plastic in silhouettes that seemed bound for spaceships. The clothes had a circa 1966 sci-fi writer's vision of the year...
...past several months the Chicago police have been scrambling to polish their image. Each week, it seems, there are new reports of everything from brutality to deficient officer training. Of late, though, the cops are showing a softer side. Even the Chicago Tribune, which had published a series of negative reports about the department, last week featured the men and women in blue waxing poetic about the beat under soft light at a South Side precinct...
...lived for two years without electricity," says a South American restaurant owner, sitting at a cafe while a woman crouches at her feet, giving her toenails their weekly polish. "Only by candle. It cost me $2 a week." Wander off the main streets, and you are in a maze of little lanes--completely unlighted and unpaved--where a former Zen monk runs a guesthouse and Africans fleeing either civil war or justice live by teaching English...
...Colorist" [FASHION, July 19]: So men are going in for hair tipping a la Ricky Martin. Jeez, what's next? Pink fingernail polish? BOB MANDESON Glendale, Calif...
Twin Falls, Idaho, a romantic drama opening July 30, stars real-life twins Michael and Mark Polish as twins who share a torso and a hooker girlfriend...