Word: skirtings
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...time that new gardeners are feeling most warm and gratified with their endeavors, delighted with the fresh vegetables and thrilled with the view from the porch, they also discover the risks involved. "A garden," warned Ralph Waldo Emerson, "is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg, and his whole body to irresistible destruction...
...bride wore a tan skirt, the groom sported white Levi's, and the minister was running for President. Jesse Jackson, who has lost none of his fabled flair for the symbolic gesture, readily agreed to perform the ceremony before a recent rally in Santa Cruz, Calif. The impromptu wedding was a media stunt, but Jackson insisted that his only goal was to publicize the plight of Allan Steen, the bride's father, who is a hostage in Beirut. Still, Jackson was beaming avuncularly when the camera crews tromped in to film the candidate, Bible in hand, blessing the happy couple...
...actors as a group make an effective transition from the light and silly first act to the whiny and petulant second act. But I feel sorry for Molly Hoagland, who has to stand erect and keep a straight face while Trig Tarazi hides and busies himself beneath her skirt, and for Celia Wren, who has to deliver a somber soliloquy about how, as a middle-aged divorcee, she rediscovered masturbation...
...fall fashion collections shown last week in New York City had a reassuring, familiar look: lots of clean-cut classics, long on style, short on thrill. But for a sagging, badly scared industry, that was headline news. What set Seventh Avenue cheering was the skirt that wasn't there: the mini, last year's sexy shocker...
...professional woman, who is just as ambitious and conservative as her male counterpart -- and competitor. "I have worked very hard to reach a point where I am taken seriously in the business community," says Jean Brooks, senior vice president of a Los Angeles advertising firm. "A short, short skirt is not going to help that." Asks Andrea Mitchell, White House correspondent for NBC News: "Can you imagine me sitting down to interview the First Lady in a skirt hiked up over my thighs?" Barbara Sigmund, 48, mayor of Princeton, N.J., puts it best of all: "Could Lee Iacocca have bailed...