Word: wearings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...confess; I am not a true indie rock queen. I do not have short, spiky, bleached-blonde hair filled with little barrettes. I do not own Pavement's Slanted And Enchanted. I do not smoke cloves. I rather dislike tea. However, I wear thick black-rimmed glasses. I own a pair of Saucony shoes. I prefer vintage clothing to the mall. I own Sebadoh's Bubble And Scrape. On cassette. I knew about Belle and Sebastian during their If You're Feeling Sinister days. I have my cartilage pierced...
...call Versace, you call DKNY, Polo, Gucci, etc., etc. And you sell yourself, Listen, I'm going to be on The Real World. Broadcast as a personality to hundreds of millions of captive viewers -viewers who tend to have disposable income and impressionable personalities and I want to wear your clothes. I'll be a walking advertisement for you! I'll be a.... You'll look damn good on MTV when you have a different designer outfit on every day. And more importantly, six months laterafter your tortuous sojournyou pack your boxes to send home with six months worth...
...place, very blue collar. It's the hair capital of the country. We have more hair salons on every corner and more car dealerships than any city in the country. People are really into how they dress and how they look. To a formal in Detroit, you would wear a red suit with white gloves, a red hat, red gator skin shoes and a pinky ring on the outside of the glove. You might have a gold tooth. One of the clubs I used to hang out at was called Chickenwing. The owner's name was Chickenwing and he used...
...different sort. According to a story in the Boston Globe, the creators of Patrick Henry College (PHC), currently awaiting accreditation by the Virginia board of higher education, plan to invite home-schooled students to make up the college's undergraduate population and create a rigid learning environment where students wear uniforms at all times, don't drink and are required to ask their parents before going on a date...
They still teach kids about the birds and the bees. It's just that these birds wear chastity belts and the bees pretend they have no desire whatsoever to pollinate the local flowers. According to new studies by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Alan Guttmacher Institute, that's pretty much the script in one third of American public schools. Such abstinence-only programs, which are particularly widespread in the South, keep the lesson simple: Sex before marriage is wrong, and contraception does very little to keep pregnancies or STDs at bay. Critics charge that abstinence programs ignore the realities...