Word: zippering
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...watched Stith slip on her weathered biking gloves, lower the tinted visor of her helmet into place and then close the heavy zipper of her black leather jacket, its metal studs gleaming in the sunlight, my highly developed journalist’s eye told me that this was no run-of-the-mill Harvard woman...
...anchor of its own a.m. show. In a spot that aired on the network several times on Jan. 5 and 6, a male voice described Zahn as "provocative, supersmart and, oh yeah, just a little sexy." The last word seemed to be accompanied by the sound of a zipper. News executives said no one on their side had been consulted, nor had Zahn herself. The ad was pulled first thing Monday. Calling the ad a "major blunder," CNN chairman Walter Isaacson said in a statement, "I am outraged, and so is Paula, who has spent more than 20 years proving...
...season that defined Harvard Ballroom in many ways. By this time, the recent resurgence of swing had taken its hold on the country. Bands like the Brian Setzer Orchestra, Squirrel Nut Zipper, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and the Cherry Poppin' Daddies led the rise of the oldtime blend of jazz and blues...
...year the Council has not invited a Violent Femmes clone to Springfest. Instead we have Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, whose music tries to revive swing--which, as a popular music, has been dormant for some 50 years now. With the help of several similar bands--most notably Squirrel Nut Zipper and the Brian Setzer Orchestra--and the applause of countless conservative culture warriors, they've been fairly successful. However, it's worth asking if their music is really so different from that of the Violent Femmes of the world...
...been taken to obtain them." The irony, of course, is that now we would say even the most "civilized" mid-nineteenth-century American lived a life far more primitive than any imaginable today. No Coca-Cola (nor plastic bottle in which to hold it); no Gore-Tex jacket (nor zipper with which close it); no Chevy Blazer (nor asphalt on which to drive it). Really, how can you talk about gross necessaries when you haven't even been to Filene's Basement...