Word: wearings
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It’s about time you admit it: that Halloween party you throw in your room every year is unbearably lame. Besides, the person you’re inviting solely for the purpose of hooking up with will probably wear the yellow jumpsuit from Kill Bill, and let’s face it—he/she is no Uma Thurman. So stay in and watch a movie with your dorky hall tutor and his whiny twentysomething friends. Just tell all the losers you e-mailed that you couldn’t get a flu shot and you vomited...
...course the terminator, six of diamonds Arnold Schwarzenagger bidding “Hasta La Vista” to John Kerry. And don’t forget those Jokers Ted M. Kennedy and John “Flip-Flop” Kerry. Like the funny men they are, they wear ruffled collars and jester hats with dangling dollar sign pendants...
...ignore-while we concentrate on sports, television, movies and the rest of our selfish interests. The media cover only as much as we want to watch. The death of 50,000 people is no more important to us during this election season than are the ties the candidates wear during the debates. Joseph T. Teixeira Jr. Bristol...
...television ad. Gu learned more on Nike's Internet page and persuaded overseas friends to send him music. Now they send something else too: limited-edition Nikes unavailable in China. Gu and his partner sell them in their shop, Upward, to Beijing's several hundred "sneaker friends" and wear them while spinning tunes in Beijing's top clubs. To them, scoring rare soles and playing banned music are part of the same rebellious experience. "Because of the government, Chinese aren't allowed access to a lot of these things," says Gu's partner, Ji Ming, "but with our shop...
Success aside, Nike has had its stumbles. When it began outfitting Chinese professional soccer teams in the mid-1990s, its ill-fitting cleats caused heel sores so painful that Nike had to let its athletes wear Adidas (with black tape over the trademark). In 1997, Nike ramped up production just before the Asian banking crisis killed demand, then flooded the market with cheap shoes, undercutting its own retailers and driving many into the arms of Adidas. Two years later, the company created a $15 Swoosh-bearing canvas sneaker designed for poor Chinese. The "World Shoe" flopped so badly that Nike...