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...executive skirts: "Ordinary gestures like sitting on a low sofa or stepping over a puddle become difficult." On high heels: "The halting tiptoe gait they produce is thought provocative-perhaps because it guarantees that no woman wearing them can outrun a man who is chasing her." On edible underwear: "If clothes were words, these would be like talking with your mouth full." Such insights are the constructs of fiction rather than the battlements of feminism. Lurie, after all, is neither psychologist nor sociologist; she remains a novelist...
Julie E. Hashem, a freshman living in McCormick, said yesterday that residents have had to take shifts to guard their laundry. Lisa C. Tener, a sophomore, took her turn in the laundry room because, "It's really expensive to replace your underwear...
Researchers at the University of California at San Francisco are beginning a three-year study of 250 patients with the disease to explore the connection with DES as well as other possible influences, including race, social class, on-the-job exposure to chemicals, even the type of underwear favored. One theory holds that men who wear tight shorts run a greater risk of developing the disease...
...pennant races were making a mockery of won-lost records, when the strike-broken season had robbed every asterisked statistic of meaning, New York Yankee Principal Owner George Steinbrenner returned the national pastime to normal: he fired his manager. Steinbrenner changes managers about as often as most fans change underwear, though he does it with more anguish and bigger headlines. The latest victim was Gene Michael, the eighth Yankee manager in as many years to succumb to Steinbrenner's peculiar style of baseball by psychodrama...
Sometimes litigants tend to ramble or drag in irrelevancies, like the mover who, although being sued for damaging some furniture, tried to discredit his opponent by reporting that she once accused him of stealing her underwear. Occasionally, however, somebody shows a gift for pointed lawyerly sarcasm. One defendant had smashed part of his neighbor's blaring rooftop alarm to silence it while the neighbor was away. The neighbor, seeking reimbursement, brought along the alarm and a pillow in a red satin case to show that the sound could have been stifled without damaging the system. "Your Honor," said...