Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...known in Washington for a troubled domestic life and an erratic voting record that hewed to his party's line only about half the time. But in 1988, as he campaigned successfully for re- election, questions arose about a $100,875 book-promotion arrangement that apparently enabled him to skirt Senate rules limiting outside income...
...revolution that began in the gym and on the jogging track. Gradually, the line between work-out gear and street clothes has blurred, and, as people gazed into the studio mirrors, they began to see that an unbroken silhouette looks longer and leaner than one cut up by a skirt...
That wasn't all they noticed. One humble service rendered by the traditional skirt is to camouflage the knee: no one much older than an infant has pretty knees. But an opaque legging accomplishes the cover-up nicely. And more ancient wisdom comes into play. Carolina Herrera, noted for her ladylike designs that include Caroline Kennedy's exquisite wedding dress, endorses the look for a sound reason: "The last thing to go in a woman are the legs...
Herrera has fashioned a demure tweed costume with the merest sigh of a skirt and rust-colored crushed-velvet tights -- guaranteed to conquer any corporate board. But she cautions against the indiscriminate use of patterns. "They have to be very special," she says. "Otherwise you look as if you have a terrible disease on your legs...
Stoppard was well aware that the actors in the Bard's time were all men, and he exploits the ambiguous sexuality in the work. Witness the "tragedian" boy-prostitute, Alfred (Jon Finks), who fumbles constantly with the folds of the skirt he repeatedly dons and sheds. And there's the added nuance of the the implications of the close relationship between Rosencrantz and Guildenstern--the title characters cannot even tell themselves apart...