Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...here it is convention time again. Joey Mantegna, fellow Chicagoan, sent me a T shirt, which arrived last month. It bears the logo of the Chicago police department and the legend DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION CHICAGO--1996...WE KICKED YOUR FATHER'S ASS IN 1968...WAIT 'TIL YOU SEE WHAT...
With Chicago's ability to host a peaceful Democratic Convention at stake, it's hard to imagine anyone worrying about a lousy T shirt. But this isn't just any T shirt. "It's cop humor," shrugs Pat Gutkoska, whose print shop is across the street from the Chicago Police Eighth District Station. "The cops that see it know it's a joke." The department's official take on the shirt is offhand disdain. Some police say the word has come down from Mayor Richard M. Daley that wearing or selling the T shirt could lead to disciplinary action...
...usually dressed in a T shirt, chinos and high tops, which, like his hands, are propped up on rests. One notices how clean the sneakers are. His color is good, his hair a thick mixture of old brown and new gray, his eyes true blue. Indeed, his eyes are so alert and intent, his actor's face so distractingly alive, that when one's own eyes rise to meet it, the reality of his condition is obliterated. At these moments one realizes that his mobility has been restricted only from the neck down...
...wears only a T shirt to sleep, so the nurses can dress and undress the wound on his backside and so they can do "the bowel program." He jokes that the bowel program, like a TV show, is on every night. "The reason we have to do it in bed is that the people who made my commode chair put the seat on sideways, and when I tried using it that way, it made my decubitus wound much worse. So one of my humiliations is that my bed is also a bathroom. You're given a suppository and what...
Your wrinkle report [NOTEBOOK, July 29] says 76% of baby boomers think they look younger than their age. Those creams must be working. A local TV consumer reporter gave a "wrinkle-out" spray a rating of 6 out of a possible 10. He should try it on a shirt next time. SCOTT FELDMEYER Milwaukee, Wisconsin Via E-mail