Word: wearings
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...history in the making--and a strong sense of community pride--explains why you hear many African Americans use the pronoun we to describe Obama's candidacy, as in "When we win ..." Those forces explain why older men who have never become attached to politicians wear hats emblazoned with Obama's name. And why you can find young men sporting hip-hop T shirts that bear the face of Obama instead of Biggie or Tupac. Obama has given millions of black Americans a reason to be proud. But he has also expanded their sense of the possible. And so, while...
...time a band tries this, someone at its record company invariably mentions the early-'60s Beatles--it could happen!--but that only serves to reinforce how long the odds are, and the Jonas Brothers have already made it tough on themselves. There is the fact that all three brothers wear purity rings and have forsworn the temptations of sex and drugs, which wipes out large swaths of potential songwriting material. Also, they are products of the famously regimented Disney media machine, and their appearances on Hannah Montana and starring roles in Camp Rock don't suggest any hidden expertise...
Sure, a lot of adults go to Orlando to indulge in creepy Disney nostalgia. (Grown men should not wear Mickey ears.) But there's another side to Orlando, a city with an opera company, two excellent museums and a busy, quirky nightlife. In an era when only the wealthy can afford an overseas plane ticket, when New York City is too expensive and "the new Vegas" now feels old, consider Orlando. This perpetual adolescent of a city is finally growing...
...about the uniforms? In Beijing, ITTF vice president Claude Bergeret has been telling anyone with a tape recorder that the female table tennis players should not be afraid to shake things up a bit in the wardrobe department. The baggy shirts - the same as the ones the men wear - don't do much to set the female players apart. "We are trying to push the players to use skirts and also nicer shirts...with more curves," he told the China Daily...
...bikini-clad beach volleyball dancers set quite a high bar, but we're with you, Claude, and so are many of the players. "I think women should wear a dress like tennis players, I think our dress is so boring, not sexy," said Wang. And if that doesn't work, the ITTF might want to think about opening up that glue tent to the spectators...