Word: skirting
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...address growing concerns over the Whitewater Affair. Clinton skillfully deflected the reporters’ questions, using a breadth of details that reminded every viewer of her lawyerly past. But the next day’s headlines focused largely on the cosmetic details: the Barbie Doll top, the black skirt bottom, the flattened bangs, the warm lights that made the First Lady glow. The media found itself in tricky and uncharted territory: How do you report on a politically savvy and professionally accomplished First Lady—often vilified for overstepping her bounds as the wife of a president?...
...European officials blame Asian shipping companies, which skirt quota rules by transferring tuna directly from industrial ranches in the Mediterranean to Japan-bound ships, without ever touching land and without reporting the size of their catch. "We cannot monitor it," says a European Commission official in Brussels. Tuna-ranching companies have become sensitive to environmental criticism. Spain's largest company, Ricardo Fuentes and Sons, declined to speak to Time, as did Azzopardi Fisheries in Malta, which controls some of the Mediterranean's richest breeding grounds. A.J.D. Tuna Limited, which Azzopardi owns with Japanese partners, says on its website that since...
...have a car, and we need a ride. Otherwise, the $30 tickets go to waste. The only impulse more natural to me than looking out for myself is looking out for my money. Apparently, 30 bucks is worth more than my life.I’m wearing a skirt, and Simon’s in khakis. But standing in front, with a pointy nose and prudish mouth, I still scare the cars away. We don’t look like guitar toting, hippie hitchhikers. Fortunately, Simon has puppy-dog eyes and baby teeth set on a big head that...
...couture runways were littered with hints of Balenciaga's innovative cuts and use of volume. At Dior, the exaggerated shape of a horsehair skirt echoed his penchant for stiff fabrics. At Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld kicked in a fuchsia cocoon coat--an iconic Balenciaga look. Even couture newcomer Giorgio Armani, who began showing in Paris only three seasons ago, referenced the designer with a stunningly simple A-line evening dress...
...does not fully reckon with, perhaps because she's inured to their weirdness, is that her relatives are all freaking nuts. Her sister works part time as a belly dancer, but spends most of her life cheerfully picking up inappropriate men. Her young daughter wears a pillow under her skirt pretending to be pregnant. The teen-aged brother has embraced strict religious orthodoxy and keeps interrupting the smooth flow of social events on this Sabbath evening by taping over the light switches and hiding everyone's cell phones; there is to be no electronic interference with true belief. Grandpa...