Word: rimmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brass instrument players, using trumpets and trombones, donned an array of sweaters, T-shirts, jeans and slacks in a piecemeal collection of colors and fabrics. As the dark-dressed bass player crouched near the drums, the lead singer/guitarist burst on stage with a screaming electric blue Hawaiian shirt, checkered rim sunglasses and a blinding smile...
...completely insensitive of you to say President Clinton looked "goofy" wearing various outfits on his visit to the Pacific Rim [NOTEBOOK, Dec. 9]. You showed him wearing the barong tagalog, which is the traditional formal wear of Filipinos. As a Filipino American, I am proud whenever I wear my barong, and I certainly don't think I look goofy. FRANK LOPEZ Atlanta...
...election over, President Clinton is once again free to look goofy--at least when visiting the Pacific Rim. From left: going native in Australia; wearing a Philippine barong tagalog, a gift from President Fidel Ramos; sporting Thai academic garb during a ceremony at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University; and back in traditional American costume on an Australian beach...
Those of us who grew up in the Midwest had trouble playing without a net, so every Sunday one of us stood on the playground's trash can and taped our own net to the rim. For weeks the park-department employee in charge of the playground eyed this scene sullenly...
...when correctly situated, a tooth on the rim of a wheel, a gear tooth as the technical boys prefer to call it. But with the institution of smooth wheels--and here's the key reason why the wheel became broken--the cogs were all cut off. Just hacksawed and sanded over. And there they were, floating about the machine, like some half-witted pieces of steel, and then, then there they went getting caught up, in, about, behind, all around, and even, you know where...