Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shells. "I got third-degree burns from a machine gun," she groans, "and no matter what I did, the shells kept bouncing off me. The men in those sequences had jackets, boots and dungarees, while my body was exposed in this off-the-shoulder blouse and a sack skirt." Wagner was comforted somewhat by a cuddly black panther cub, one of her costars, but mostly, she says, "I applied a lot of ice" to that not-so-bionic skin. -By Claudia Wallis
...seconds, physicians checked off 15 diseases. They placed chalk marks on the lapels of those who needed closer scrutiny: H for heart, L for limp, X for mental defect. With still evident embarrassment, Sophie recalls a distressing moment when a nurse "put her hand under my skirt. She was checking for I don't know what, but she did it to everyone." Then a doctor dipped a buttonhook into an antiseptic solution and used it to flip back the eyelid. The reason: to check for trachoma, a blinding disease that would leave the immigrant an unwanted public charge. Trachoma...
Fleet Street's old-fashioned rotary presses rolled off reams of front pages about the lithesome lass who seemed to have captured the Prince's heart. One photograph showed Diana posing in the bright autumn sunlight, nice legs plainly silhouetted through her diaphanous skirt...
...most difficult, for she is not given such an opportunity to step away from her job as walking chess piece. Only in the early love scenes with Jerry can she display any character at all, and there she can only laugh and sparkle, flaunt her yellow shirt and red skirt that are the only bright colors we see all evening...
...They only thing that will trigger the removal permit ordinance is if the landlord takes the unit off the rental market," Sullivan said, adding that landlords attempt to skirt the law by selling the units to "investors" who serve as "dummy owners" for the actual occupants...