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...importance of a career and the reason for raising children. Ironically, I had been making many decision in my life based on feminine stereotypes--I would do the opposite of what the stereotypes stated that I should do. I would pretend I hated children. I would never even sew a button on a skirt. I would wear slippers and my pajamas (or jeans) to class all the time...
...three sizes too small and have permanently dysfunctional zippers. Lesser offenders will be sentenced to wear bell-bottoms, acid-washed cut-offs and other stylistic abominations. The 1,000 workers who lost their jobs will genetically alter the cottonwood tree so that it bears unlimited blossoms of ready-to-sew denim. Having no raw material costs of significance, they will seize the machinery of production and produce quality blue jeans for the world...
They forged on despite having to schedule their own practice times and matches, hire their own referees, arrange transportation to other schools, and, in some cases, buy and sew their own uniforms...
...limited value from a political perspective because Wilson is viewed by Californians as a failed candidate. But from a fundraising point of view, it is pivotal for Dole. With Wilson's support, he can pre-empt the gold rush into the state by the other candidates and sew up the funds for himself. He and Wilson have even talked about joint fundraisers. Dole will raise money for his campaign, and Wilson will retire his debt." A Dole aide says Wilson, who withdrew Sept. 29 after fundraising and campaign problems, will be general chairman of the Senate majority leader's campaign...
...sale at Henri Bendel's, with ladies squabbling over the merchandise like angry hummingbirds, resembles a Pompeian grotesque translated into the 1920s. She liked caricature too. In the Cathedrals, the series of New York historical-satirical-puzzle pictures that she considered her crowning works, she uses cartoonish labels to sew the message together. In Cathedrals of Wall Street, 1939, Eleanor Roosevelt, the woman Stettheimer most admired, is seen with Fiorello La Guardia and a contingent of drum majorettes, Marine musicians and Salvation Army choristers belting out a hymn: New York, New Deal and capitalism resplendent in gold, all presided over...