Word: scarfed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carrying the motif through the next three decades. The 50s woman parades before the audience in fashion-induced euphoria, troubled only by the urgent need to find a husband. But the 60s woman is not so superfluous: she's the "active pretty little thing," equipped with a "pretty little scarf" to keep out tear gas. The 70s bring the "independent pretty little thing," liberated to the point that she can say "fuck you" over and over with only the slightest provocation. Finally, we arrive at the woman of the 80s who, among other things, "dares to bust union drives without...
...only evidence of life in this room is Ishmael Reed himself, who sits casually behind the desk, a blue-and-white scarf wrapped around his neck. His iconoclastic modesty makes it obvious he is not comfortable at the center of this empty office; he talks as though he would rather be writing--alone and somewhere else...
...Harvard. You know all your relatives are dying for an article of clothing with that name on it. The Coop (1400 Mass. Ave.) sells a crimson Champion sweatshirt for $45 or a striped scarf for $25. A pair of Harvard booties at $8.50 will make the perfect gift for the baby in the family. Feeling Scrooge-ish? Buy a 29-cent Harvard pencil or a 90-cent bar of Harvard soap...
...eyes at all," said one patient, Mary M. Sousa, 76, of Sommerville. "By evening I can do nothing but go to bed with a scarf over my head to cover my eyes. It's miserable...
...flak last week as she fired a round from a Challenger tank at the NATO training ground near Fallingbostel, West Germany. She and West German + Chancellor Helmut Kohl were making their first joint visit to British forces stationed in the area. Decked out in stout walking shoes, flowing scarf and goggles, Thatcher looked like a "cross between Isadora Duncan and Lawrence of Arabia," as the Daily Telegraph affectionately put it. With the help of a few tips from the commander of the Royal Hussars' regiment, the British leader locked on her target with a laser beam and pulled the trigger...