Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Simmons (Powdered Eggs, Wrinkles) uses the broad strokes of Restoration comedy to distance the new book from his former employer. Surnames of staff members on the influential weekly Belles Lettres derive from the nomenclature of publishing and typography. Among the arcana: Jonathan Margin, Virginia Wrappers, Claire Tippin, Lou Bodoni, Xavier Deckle, Ellie Bellyband and Sylvia Topstain...
Jill made the Virginia Woolf tattoo on her bicep dance, brushed her crew cut and said, "I thought you were planning to get seriously into writing this term, Betty...
...Edward Freeman, a visiting professor at the Darden Business School at University of Virginia, says he was "not surprised," because of the Business School's prominence. Freemen works at the 20-year-old Center for Applied Ethics at Darden...
...those sleek design achievements of the 1950s that can make people nostalgic for tackiness. Badanes even travels with a plastic pink flamingo that he props outside the door wherever he parks. Most recently, the trailer -- and flamingo -- was parked in a wooded lot of a wealthy northern Virginia suburb while serving as home for Badanes, his itinerant opera-singing girlfriend Donna Walter, and their dog Floyd Bite (after Frank Lloyd Wright). But if a tacky trailer in an expensive Colonial suburb seems a little out of place to you, consider what Badanes and his three colleagues, architect-builders who call...
...others gave up, preferring to watch their fellow swingers make mistakes. Some groups decided against the "old time stuff" and tried to slam dance instead. A few even attempted the Virginia Reel and began skipping and "do-si-doing" around the room...