Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eight, snipping thread and bagging dresses for as little as $2.50 an hour. The narrow aisles of the garment factories are cluttered beyond hope of reaching a fire exit, which in many instances are blocked by debris. In one plant, the wall around the plastic crucifix is peeling, the tin ceiling sagging, the floor ankle deep in tissue, scraps, foam and fluff. But for the steam rising from the ironing boards, the air does not move. In the front hang row upon row of crisp white cotton miniskirts bearing the tag CREATED WITH PRIDE...
...museum show was ever devoted to the field until last December. Then the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis mounted "Graphic Design in America: A Visual Language History." The rich, exhaustive exhibit -- consisting of some 1,200 mass-produced messages on paper and tin and plastic generated between 1829 and 1990 -- has now been shipped to New York City, where it is on view at the IBM Gallery of Science and Art through April...
...fried okra, fried squash and fried catfish. The South stands for and stands up for religion: The South is the Bible Belt. The South stands for big 'ole mosquitoes. The South stands for the southern accent, including y'all, tar (can go flat), bud (e.g. the mockin'), rasslin' and tin (after nine...
Even though the majority of songs that Holiday sang throughout her three-decade career were commercial, Tin Pan Alley tunes ("What A Little Moonlight Can Do", "Them There Eyes", "I Cover The Waterfront"). she sang them in such an uncompromising, heartfelt style that she never gained the national popularity of more "acceptable" singers like Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan...
...there the car engine began making weird sounds as of tin cans rattling around under the bonnet and a very pungent odour assailed our nostrils. On arrival at our destination, ASDAS "shopping mall" as you so quaintly call them, I ups bonnet, the battery is exuding an acrid smoke which almost chokes me. Nothing to see though which could explain the rattling noise, so in we went to the "Shaaping maall" (American Idiom). Hustling around all the glitz and shit on sale to the idiots like us who come every year under the spell of the commercialism...