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Word: tagalog (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apec economic summits. But the clothes! Last week Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien chose for his guests a brown elk leather, $400 Roots flight jacket, each personalized with the summiteer's name, title and apec logo, and cut to size (Clinton's: XXXL, tall). Such outfits--a Philippine barong tagalog in 1996 and an Indonesian batik shirt in 1994--are now high on the agenda. Host countries "check out the President's size pretty carefully," says the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 8, 1997 | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...completely insensitive of you to say President Clinton looked "goofy" wearing various outfits on his visit to the Pacific Rim [NOTEBOOK, Dec. 9]. You showed him wearing the barong tagalog, which is the traditional formal wear of Filipinos. As a Filipino American, I am proud whenever I wear my barong, and I certainly don't think I look goofy. FRANK LOPEZ Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 30, 1996 | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...election over, President Clinton is once again free to look goofy--at least when visiting the Pacific Rim. From left: going native in Australia; wearing a Philippine barong tagalog, a gift from President Fidel Ramos; sporting Thai academic garb during a ceremony at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University; and back in traditional American costume on an Australian beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 9, 1996 | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

...delivering Filipino food, Rocky leaves home with Elvis to pursue a music career in Los Angeles and, later, New York City. Toward the end of the book her mother becomes senile and begins to forget her English; Rocky, for her part, is no longer able to remember her Tagalog as she grows into middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: HAVE GUITAR, WILL TRAVEL | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

...forgotten so much of the language, and it exasperates me," Rocky says. "Big holes when I try to speak. Like, how do you say sugar? I remember aswang for vampire, asin for salt. But not sugar. I've dreamed entire dreams in Tagalog, but I don't know what I'm saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: HAVE GUITAR, WILL TRAVEL | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

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