Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is an underground of sorts at West Point--cadets who do the minimum and try constantly to skirt the rules--but they are clearly in the minority. Some people break the rules against drug use, but for most, it isn't worth the consequences of resigning your commission and leaving the academy. "Drugs are a death warrant here," one officer explains. "You might as well pack your bags...
...seems the administration is trying to skirt the matter by deciding not to hold a CHUL meeting in October," Marazita, whose petition collected about 300 signatures from Eliot House residents, added...
...that; and this choppy, self-indulgent work fails even as an adolescent Chorus Line. While Parker has a good eye for projecting spontaneity--several scenes evoke the chilling chase through the streets of Istanbul in his Midnight Express--he has a cloying tendency to content himself with flirt and skirt, inadvertently erasing any semblance of passion that leaks through the surface...
Noon in the Babushkinsky District People's Court in northern Moscow. The judge, a petite brunet in a striped blouse and skirt, enters the room. Two citizen-jurists called "people's assessors," an elderly man and a young woman, follow her to the high-backed chairs behind the bench. On the docket: Borisova vs. Borisov, a divorce case...
...experts point out that the basic appeal of Preppiana is that they are "investment clothes," meaning that they will comfortably ride out the whims of fashion. Though a Preppie item will almost always be cheaper than, say, a Pucci or Gucci equivalent, the investment can be substantial: a plaid skirt can sell for $115, a blazer for $100, a seersucker suit for $135. However, as a Brooks Brothers spokesman points out, the clothes appeal to women of all ages and backgrounds. "A career businesswoman can buy a corduroy suit or a British-looking hounds-tooth jacket and wear...