Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...section, students usually stick to plot summaries and close readings of the texts. Personal experiences play virtually no role in interpretation. But we still manage to have protracted discussions--employing several dozen "those people"--that usually skirt around the bigger social issues. For example, during a half-hour discussion of Carver's "Cathedral," nobody proposed that the story might be about prejudice. Instead we discussed the problems of communication between one man and his wife...
Some performers live in memory as icons of their eras -- Marilyn Monroe with her air-blown skirt at thigh level, or Louise Brooks of the silents, purring beneath a helmet of slinky black hair. Particularly to the French, there is more than one archetypical image of Josephine Baker, who danced her way out of the hovels of East St. Louis to become the world's first black international star. From the Roaring Twenties came a Baker persona at once erotic and comic: prancing topless on a Paris music-hall stage, with eyes crossed as if to spoof her naked sensuality...
Although McKibben does not skirt these questions, he argues along different lines. Regardless of the effects, he says, we have already changed the earth's atmosphere and continue to do so. What the result will be--good or ill-no one can tell. But the air today is undoubtedly different from 20 years ago, and will be different again 20 years from...
Karan, 41, has earned a reputation as the sartorial savior of the modern working woman who is fed up with floppy bow ties and sexless designs. Karan's clothes are comfortable and practical, stylish and feminine. Among her trademarks: one-piece silk bodysuits, easy-fitting jackets, wrap skirts. Fashion doyen John Fairchild, publisher of Women's Wear Daily, lauds Karan as the most important American designer. Says he: "Donna understands a woman's body the way Coco Chanel did." A size 12 herself, Karan boasts the rare and eternally marketable talent of cutting a skirt or a pair of pants...
...computer in Cambridge, England. Theoretically, that number allows nations to trace the tusk as it passes from country to country in trade. But many quotas have been ill-considered or ignored, falsified export documents have been discovered in numerous nations, and corrupt officials in collusion with traders continue to skirt the system...