Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really bad headache for three or four days. I was really stiff, and my neck hurt," Sands said yesterday. "I couldn't understand it, but then a friend I spend a lot of time with in L.A. (Sands' home) called me and told me she had it. I went to an M.D. here and he said without a doubt...
...radio as a means to reach and unite people, and with his sonorous voice he brilliantly exploited the new medium in the periodic "fireside chats" that always began: "My friends . . ." Roosevelt was equally adept at manipulating the press. He invented the modern press conference, canceling Hoover's stiff insistence on written questions and inviting White House reporters to gather around his desk for bantering but far-ranging exchanges on his new programs...
...skins since clothing was invented, but leather clothing was never considered high fashion-unless the fur was left on. Nowadays, however, leather and its nappy obverse, suede, have been transformed into glamorous materials that can be used for any garment, from bikinis to evening wear. Thanks to new techniques, stiff, bulky skins can be cut almost paper-thin and butter-soft. And they are dyed almost any color. As a result, leather will be ubiquitous this spring. Says Vogue Editor in Chief Grace Mirabella: "Suede is the fashion. It is the star of the season...
...Dorinda's first-act aria on the ineffable nature of love--she's the beach bunny, nee shepherdess--become the excuse for an hilarious mock-disco strut. Later in the opera, when Dorinda sings of love's bitterness, it is Sellars's inspiration that she pour herself a stiff drink between repetitions (all Orlando's arias consist of six or eight lines repeated again and again), with the result that her octave leaps slowly become sozzled hiccups...
...plane. He bounded down the gangway, dragging Charles behind like a tin can. Then there was Anne's retriever. He took one look at the steep gangway and cowered in the plane's doorway. While a shirt-sleeved steward grabbed the dog, Princess Anne, with a stiff upper lip and fairly rigid upper arm, pulled on the dog's lead. The retriever lost. And Diana? Well, she just got a new cassette recorder and at times has seemed oblivious to the domestic turmoil around her. As the Queen reportedly has put it about Di's audio...