Word: stylishness
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...when he wasn't proctoring exams. Although he monitored tests for no more than a small fraction of the year, one could often run into him during the off season in the back corridors of Mem Hall, his formidable midsection barely contained by a stylish outfit, the obligatory tall bottle of Pepsi at his side...
...farce reaches unbelievable extremes when Lady Bracknell terrorizes the obsequious John Worthing, who had hoped to marry her stylish daughter, Gwendolyn Fairfax (Jacqueline Riggs). As she grills him on his eligibility with questions like "Do you smoke?" his meager replies sound more and more unrealistic--"I'm afraid I do," he squeaks, and she answers dictatorially, "Good--a man should always have an occupation." Worthing says he has no parents and Bracknell responds, "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune, to lose both is carelessness." In order to be considered for Miss Fairfax's husband he "must...
Maybe not. But curiously, there is a new, burgeoning demand at the source of cocaine: Colombian, Peruvian and Bolivian youths are rushing to become cokeheads. South American governments have been generally unsympathetic to U.S. jeremiads about the northward flow of South American drugs. But now they are seeing stylish cocaine abuse firsthand. And because the drug is so cheap in the Andes ($14 a street gram), it is more often smoked liberally in cigarettes than snorted...
...Fresh" is the ideal now. It stands, figuratively, for stylish, but it literally means clean, new, right. Sneakers without a smudge; jeans unblemished. But there is humor as well as rigor in rap flash. If you think high, knitted ski caps worn at impossible angles are just funny-looking, you only get half the joke. Printed legends like I'D RATHER BE SKIING refer not to snowy slopes but to white mounds of a certain illicit inhalable substance. Greek fisherman hats, or bike-team hats, even shirts with alligator trademarks are worn with what Rap Scene Writer Michael Holman...
...imagination. The public's appetite for details of the murder trial had been whetted by the social standing of the protagonists, as Diana Trilling pointed out in her brilliant 1981 study, Mrs. Harris. But the abiding fascination of the case resides in the story of the high-minded, stylish lady who descended to the depths of self-abasement and violence...