Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Peeping out everywhere is Franz Kafka's haunted, haunting face. Kafka is a poster and T-shirt industry. Shining out from the Central European confectionery window frames and snowflake Bohemian crystal: the consumptive's black, intelligent eyes. He is Prague's presiding household god, part of the city's neurotic Shinto...
...other hand to say what has to be said, all these play a major role. All such political behavior relates to good taste in a broader sense. What I really have in mind is something more than just knowing which tie to choose to match a particular shirt...
...that the popular Li Jing -- China's premier gymnast -- is a stuffed shirt. "Gymnasts only look big because TV screens are so small," he says with a wink. Among his teammates, he's the life of the party. "Li Jing is always a joker," says his coach Zhang Jian. "Except, of course, during competition, when it counts...
That night termites reduce Fay's one T shirt to tatters. This gives him the excuse to try his "new system," which means stripping down to a bathing suit and sandals. "Come back in two years, and you will find me completely naked, living in the middle of the Ndoki with six Pygmy wives," he jokes. He thinks that the Pygmies have it right: the less you wear, the faster your skin dries after rainfall and the less likely you are to get parasitic fungi and footworms. Fay has already accumulated four nasty footworms, which burrow under the skin until...
...those who aren't too modest about the subject, T-shirts advocate safe sex and the wonders of rubbers. It's toooo biiiig," says one. Another shirt says. "See Dick and Jane. See Dick go. See Jane grow. Don't Be a Dick." Below that warning, Dick and Jane grin broadly, clutching condom wrappers in their little stick fingers. Emergency condoms are provided in the neck label...