Word: wearings
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...slightly dowdy affairs, crammed with a wide variety of used clothes, bric-a-brac, books and CDs. But the Notting Hill shop - one of three in London recently reopened as high-fashion boutiques - looks downright chic, with polished dark-wood flooring, arty light fixtures, and top-brand ladies' wear displayed on stylish wrought-iron racks. The shop also sells brand-new fair-trade clothes and accessories typically made by London College of Fashion students from organic fabrics, as well as one-of-a-kind items made from recycled clothes and other materials. One smart-looking jacket on offer...
...expanded edition of The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook, written by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf, has just come out, with its tongue-in- cheek catalog of p.c. terms. (Looters are now ''nontraditional shoppers.'') At Hooters, a fast-growing Atlanta-based restaurant chain, waitresses call themselves ''Hooters Girls,'' wear revealing skintight outfits, and appear on trading cards that trumpet their measurements. Says Scott Allmendinger, editor of Restaurant Business: ''There's a mainstream of the American public that's just tired of being politically correct.'' And another stream that is still capable of getting teed off. ''Hooters is part...
...said. "Who is perfect in this world? One mistake doesn't mean it's all over." Everyone here has a story, and very few are in black and white. One man is dancing with his younger daughter, wishing his older girl had come as well. She used to wear a purity ring, he says, until a boy she knew assaulted her; she took it off--felt too dirty. Her parents gave her a new one, a bigger one; it took many months and much therapy, her father goes on, before she was able to put a ring on again. "That...
...tried to achieve with this autobiography was to bring in people who don't necessarily listen to classical music. The image of [classical musicians] is already changing a bit. Look at CD covers. They actually look like real people now, as opposed to before, when musicians would always wear tuxedos with big tails. I hate wearing tuxedos...
...another part whispers: Wait. Why blow the whistle as the West declines into mumbo jumbo? Let them take our dozen-armed deities and magic incense sticks; we'll transfer their busts of Galileo and Descartes to our engineering colleges and outsourcing companies. One day soon, their mystical children will wear turbans and serve our rational children at restaurants in Mumbai. So I smile at Julia and say, "You're right. It is the love line." And she glows with the pride of the American psychic who has just vanquished a visitor from the East...