Word: strapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...copies by Miller, Pappagallo and others. A made-in-Colombia macrame necklace pouch by Kathy McKeany ($5) is expected to be a sellout when it reaches stores across the country this week. More ornate minis include Bagatelle Creations' snakeskin square with bow-tied front flap and shoulder strap ($45), Fendi's burgundy suede pouch on matching belt ($85) and a basket for the neck, from Japan or China, that sells for only $1.50 at San Francisco's Obiko Boutique. A detachable black leather pouch, originally designed by Manhattan's Ruza for the U.S. ski team (both...
...even though they're "screwballs," as he says in his book. America warped him, making him grow up like a hero out of a Merle Haggard song; his father died when Hoffa was seven, forcing him to leave school at fourteen to help support the family. Mama used the strap on Jimmy plenty and he loved...
...brassiere strap hung errant and anomalous." But these lapses are overwhelmed by the novel's bitterly comic vision: a world in which an eleven-year-old boy known as "JR" parlays a bid to supply the Army with 9,000 gross of wooden picnic forks into a multinational conglomerate. Barely literate, he works out of a telephone booth and gets his leads by subscribing to dozens of commercial magazines and catalogues...
...that point Grady and the anti-power plant faction may literally strap themselves to the pillars of the vacant homes that remain on the power plant site, creating a highly visual presentation of Harvard bulldozing a community. The outcome may yield some political compromise, but it is more likely that by that time Harvard will have gone too far to be intimidated by bad public relations, on the eve of construction...
...that point several things could happen: Mission Hill residents may literaly strap themselves to the building, creating a visible, ugly, and graphic presentation of Harvard bulldozing over community people for all to see, This could cause a fierce political reaction and force the BRA or the medical institutions to back down and compromise...