Word: roped
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Moussy, a boutique located on the fifth floor of the 109 Building in Tokyo's Shibuya district, is dim, cramped and messy. The austere space communicates antifashion; there is nothing cool about the spartanic sloppiness. So why are hordes of ultra-trendy young girls lining up behind a velvet rope, eager to enter a shop whose untidy stacks of faded T shirts and cubbyholes stuffed with dark denim jeans remind one of little more than a misplaced garage sale? Here's a clue: amid the jumble of voices filling the shop as the girls paw excitedly through the clothes...
...chicken wings from a prison vending machine b) said, "No one believes a word I say anyway, so..." c) devoured his soap on a rope...
...liners. "I used to be the next President of the United States," he said to wild applause. He had some new material too: "You know I'm a visiting professor now...They just call me V.P. I'm holding on." When it was all over, Gore worked a rope line while faint chants of "Gore in Four" echoed through the room...
...obscure climbing journal, but as far as mainstream audiences were concerned, who cared? These days, however, Simonson sends e-mail from the Rongbuk Glacier in the shadow of Everest's north face and talks as eagerly about dual ISDN lines and transmission rates as he does about rope and backpacks. "Ten years ago we were in the Dark Ages from a technology standpoint," he writes in response to an e-mail from TIME. "Multimedia meant you had more than one cassette tape to listen to on your Walkman for the next three months. That's all changed...
...month later, I headed to the party's new location, Hush, which employed a velvet-rope-wielding bouncer who let guests in only if they said the words "pink-slip party"--making him the only doorman in the world trying to weed out the successful and well dressed. Upon entering, I was confronted by the two sure signs that a party won't be fun: most of the guests had just been fired, and everyone was forced to wear a wristband. Pink glow bands were given to the unemployed, green to recruiters and blue to "supportive friends." I liked...