Word: wearings
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...Other afterthoughts were bestowed on European royalty. It was mentioned with a hush that 25 years ago King Edward VII was escorted to his grave by 48 Kings and Princes. Only four sovereigns who wore crowns in Europe then still wear them: Italy's gnarled and hardy little Vittorio Emanuele III; The Netherland's marsh-mallowy but masterful Queen Wilhelmina; Norway's tall brooding Haakon VII (George V's brother-in-law); and the rheumy-eyed royal Swedish marvel who can still play tennis. 76-year-old Gustaf V. To get these four to London, however...
...developed a combination of things," says Stern. "First, the professional heckler, who feels empowered to spend the entire game directing his attention to disturbing the other team at any decibel level, at any vocabulary. Then, an ongoing permissiveness that runs the gamut from college kids who don't wear shirts and paint their faces and think that liberates them to say anything, to NBA fans who use language that is not suitable to family occasions...
CLINTON KELLY, host of TLC's What Not to Wear, on competing makeover show The Swan, on which contestants not only are told what to wear but are also given a great deal of plastic surgery...
...what must be a comfort to her mother, there are people who want SARAH JESSICA PARKER to wear more clothing. Some Israelis got upset when images of the Sex and the City star sporting a slinky dress that exposed arms, back--and even a little thigh--started appearing on billboards around their country. Unilever quickly cleaned up its Lux soap ads by pasting a more modest dress on top and joked that Parker was bundling up for winter. Just, please, for mercy's sake, say they didn't touch her Manolo Blahniks...
...sidestep land mines, hold his sweaty passport and, on some days, wear a bulletproof vest. He was sprinting on the paths of Kosovo, where military checkpoints and minefields divided Serbs from Albanians. And Narang—who worked with children from both sides—wanted to be ready for cross-country meets come fall...