Word: skirtings
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...divers opened the plastic container and examined a gold pendant bearing the image of a fanciful star with long wavy rays. "That's Canaanite," said Bass. "No question about it." On a smaller gold pendant was the figure of a woman with a tall headdress, wide skirt and both feet pointed to one side. "The figure's so Egyptian!" exclaimed Bass. "We've had three or four pendants like this on the expedition...
...Rubik's Cube that lampooned various aspects of Chinese life. Faced with criticism on so many fronts, reformers launched counterattacks to keep their revolution rolling. Premier Zhao Ziyang's State Council issued new regulations urging plant managers to establish direct links with their customers and suppliers in order to skirt the ponderous Chinese bureaucracy. Peking also promoted public debate over whether state enterprises should issue stock and how to encourage investment capital...
...family who is given to waxing eloquent about the greatness of the British empire, watches over his family with an eagle eye while also protecting his neighbor the "spirited" Mrs. Saunders (Lisa Peers). In one overly graphic scene, Clive's solicitousness of Mrs. Saunders entails under-the-skirt oral sex. But Betty (Daniel Luke Zelman), Clive's wife, is not exactly pure either. Harry Bagley (Christian Kanuth), a dashing explorer, comes to visit and sample his friend Clive's family life and wife...
...Juliet in some 1980s T shirt ripper. The reverse is just as emphatically true for most of the young American actresses. Try seeing Laura Dern's superior performance as a hormone-fogged California adolescent in Smooth Talk, for instance, and then envision her in a Victorian corset and long skirt. Fuses blow; imagination does not stretch that far. Dern, for starters, has too much Pacific Ocean salt in her blond hair, and her lanky good looks are too much a matter of knees and shoulders and elbows. She looks as if she should be playing power forward on the UCLA...
...tall and thin and leggy, but she walks with a knock-kneed self-conscious slouch. When she tries to be sexy, the worst of Valley Girl fashion comes out of the closet. Too much hairspray, too many jiggly bangles, plastic colorful earrings, a flairy mini-skirt and a push-up satin halter are the usual attire. All the sleazy guys at Frank's Hamburger Joint--which Connie and her friend prowl by night--think Connie is sexy, but even remembering what it was like to be 15, it's hard to understand why she'd want to hang out with...