Word: toe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bout of happy dancing and 100-watt smiling, not seen since Greg, Marcia and the Bunch donned the pastel bell-bottoms and harmonized to "Sunshine Day." One of the actors soon emerges with a cordless microphone and leads the rest of the group in singing the first of many toe-tapping, yet insipid songs with cheddary titles like "Learn Your Lessons Well" and "Light of the World...
...indescribably awkward moment. I could not believe how young they seemed. After all, it was only yesterday that I stood around that statue with my seventh grade class, gripping John Harvard's toe with my hands and yelling, "cheese". "Guys," I felt like calling, "Do you remember me? I was your age a short while back. Let me come with you." Luckily, a friend tapped me on the shoulder just then, freeing me from the grips of nostalgia. It was time to leave. I looked at the small boy in front of me, clad entirely in Giants paraphernalia. "I like...
...BRUEGGER'S BAGEL BAKERIES in the Chicago area, you can buy purple bagels. Purple flags festoon every other car on the streets of the Windy City. The Chicago Sun-Times recently devoted a column to the question, "Won't head-to-toe purple make me look like Barney?" And at the Roxy Restaurant in Evanston on New Year's Day, patrons will be able to drink purple beer...
...have to be that way. Built on piano, synthesizers and Daou's mesmerizing, Billie Holiday-like vocals, Zipless strikes an exquisite balance between pop and jazz by weaving together the strengths of both styles. With Daou's husband Peter playing all the instruments, the songs flow along on smooth, toe-tapping grooves punctuated by saxophone and piano solos and spiced with surprising touches like gongs and kettle drums. With Vanessa's limpid voice floating above it all, the music conjures the cool mood of an urban nightscape...
...sexy, backless clodhopper that became the must-have of devotees of high style in 1993. Gucci went on a winning streak. By March 1995 its designer, Tom Ford, was electrifying the fashion world with a revival of '60s rebellion. Soon celebrities like Madonna were in head-to-toe Gucci. At the company's London boutique this fall was a waiting list 100 chic names long for the new, $325 velvet hip-huggers. At Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan, 256 women await a reshipment of $295 high-heel pumps. The fever has hit Wall Street. Last week Gucci...