Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dazzling effect are the costumes produced by designer David Walker. Whether outfitting a corps of ballerinas or of mice, his costumes are spectacular. Particularly amusing is Mother Ginger (Tony Collins) in his last transvestite performance after 34 years as the massive lady with eight children tucked away under her skirt. And the four children dressed as marzipan sheep are just cute enough to elicit some gasps otherwise forbidden in the restrained world of ballet audience protocol...
...good business, people should be able to reach me from nine to five," he says, adding that having the cell phone allows him to skirt Harvard regulations that prohibit the use of College phone lines for business purposes...
However, the Food Lion case represents at best a Pyrrhic victory for the American press. Public confidence in the news media, as evidenced by the multi-million-dollar jury verdict, is lower than any newspaper or television network would like to admit. Tactics that skirt or violate the law will buy no friends among a public already quick to identify bias in reporters and dismiss their reports. The press occupies too important a position in the democratic process to be complacent towards this ambient distrust; perceptions of a biased, unethical or irresponsible press will only encourage the public...
Employers who try to skirt the new law will have to reckon with France's army of government inspectors. Lately there have been horror stories about the bureaucrats' staking out office buildings at night and clapping fines on executives who toil more than the current limit of 39 hrs. a week. It's against the law to work too hard in France--now even more...
Yuppie guys, on the other hand, until recently, have lacked the range that women have been privy too. So-called "dick" flicks are not nearly as interesting or varied as movies more geared toward us of the skirt persuasion (even the name isn't as fun) - only lots of guns and strippers, or some wicked combination of both. And while I can easily revel in South Park, if some poor bloke happens to stumble upon any movie with Sally Field, it is indeed a sign of the apocalypse. I once caught (caught is the key word here) my father whimpering...