Word: wandering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supposed "enlightenment," near-starvation thinness is worshipped as ideal, and everything else is slammed as simply "fat?" In Blown Sideways Through Life, Claudia Shear discusses how being fat doesn't have the dangerous allure that drugs and alcohol do: "You're just fat," she sighs. Wander into any Express store, and notice how the skirts are cut so that any woman who has any sort of shape to her body (other than that of a stick) will not be able to fit into them. For the sake of women all over the world and their health, this critic dares...
...group of my fellow HMCEers would gather in the lobby each evening at about 6 p.m. From there we would venture into the city by foot or by metro and wander for hours looking for a restaurant we could all agree...
Beyond the issue of these being the final home games of our careers, there are other reasons to wander across the river this weekend...
...differences about Europe is the age. There are old things here, really old and really impressive. In the U.S., Boston is considered a cradle of history, but as you wander the city you are unlikely to find anything much older than Harvard, dating all the way back...
...jobs supposedly paying $1,000 a month as security guards on Saipan (shamelessly described as "a train ride away from Los Angeles"). A $6,000 recruitment fee was demanded. "When we arrived here, suddenly there was no job," says Mohamed Feroj Ahmed, one of more than 100 Bangladeshis who wander the island, indebted but unable to find more than day labor. When told of the Bangladeshis' plight, Congressman Miller said, "How low do you have to get to rip off a Bangladeshi...