Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What fascinates me about Graffix is that while (by my best guess) it stays in business by selling its bongs to pot smokers, it is able to skirt drug paraphernalia laws by maintaining that the glass tubes are tobacco delivery systems. Caught in a vice between the pressures of the market and those of the law, Graffix faces some very sticky questions: How should it respond to the fact that it helps customers get high? Should it push for legalization? Might political activism provoke a backlash that drives it out of business...
...escapade featuring a pair of glamorous Hong Kong-based criminals, Li Ann and Mac (Sandrine Holt and Ivan Sergei). They are lovers whose most troublesome character flaw seems to be an addiction to hair gel. Li Ann also demonstrates an ability to probably run faster in a snug mini-skirt and high-heeled boots than even Dennis Rodman...
Political Initiation: Age 5, stumped in a skirt decorated with an elephant patch reading I'M FOR MY DADDY...
Robin has been in public life since age 5, when she wore a slogan on her skirt that read I'M FOR MY DADDY, ARE YOU? And yet in this campaign, she is so protected by campaign handlers that she is like an unaccompanied minor on an airplane. As an aide turns on a tape recorder and takes notes, Robin repeats well-worn anecdotes. How her Dad taught her to drive in a Ford Falcon. How she wrote a note to her father asking to get her ears pierced, with boxes drawn for his yes or no answer--to which...
...pickup scene was not too appealing. I'd grown up in Baltimore, so the monuments were the stuff of my junior high field trips. Excuses aside, I was afraid of this thing called Culture, doubting I'd fit the bill. I couldn't imagine having to pick out a skirt in the morning that was long enough for work and short enough for Happy Hour. I was not going to succumb...