Word: wetted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...match put a real drag on shopping sprees. In September you can avoid the hassle with a $40 software investment. Fashion Trip from ModaCAD lets teens test different outfits on a virtual mannequin. Shoppers can try out clothes from more than a dozen makers--including Esprit, Levis and Wet Seal. Too bad there's no guarantee the outfits will look as good on you as they do onscreen...
...White House family quarters. Barbara is empowered to hear confessions and grant absolution--the priestess of high colonics for the troubled celebrity mind. Her sacramental touch, her extreme unctuousness, is the very thing to preside over the tonal subtleties of this encounter--the faux intimacy, the clucking censure, the wet sympathy. Clinton and Walters might make beautiful music together, a harmony of ineffable falsenesses...
...forgiveness, not permission," but when he's repeatedly denied permission to land his seaplane in the waters along his route, he obeys. And when he's flying near the island of Carriacou and sees a "lost tribe of tarpon" in the sea below, he wants to "get the Albatross wet" but doesn't. "To even attempt to obtain permission ...we would have to fly back to St. George's and immerse ourselves in a nightmare of red tape." The author of A Pirate Looks at Fifty isn't a pirate at all. Never...
Anita Parman, 59, is here with roughly 30 family members who look like a lost division of the convoy from The Grapes of Wrath. Dogs dive for shade under beat-up trailers, and dust-coated kids wear wet towels to beat the bastard sun. Last fall Anita got pulled over while living up north and had to cough up $1,500 for car insurance and a smog inspection, so she said the hell with that. "I'd rather get me a horse and a couple of burros and live here...
...rules." Here's why: the audience stands in a cavernous room for the entire hourlong show, while a dozen or so performers soar overhead. Suspended on wires, they swoop and twirl, climb the walls, bounce in and out of the crowd. There's wind and a rainstorm (you get wet), strobe-light effects and pounding music. By the end, the aggressive performers have coaxed many in the crowd to boogie along, completing the hall's transformation from theater to disco. This mix of circus and performance art from the Argentine troupe De La Guarda is original, eye popping, repetitive...