Word: skintight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...excess of smell. Bush appears with his two oldest grandchildren, walks toward a monster mound of corn and, as photographers record the event, he acts like a man waiting for a train on a platform. Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle and Peggy Sue appear, dressed in tall spike heels, skintight pedal pushers and Bush T shirts. On the other side of the factory, for the thousandth time that day, the sisters introduce Bush by singing Coal Miner's Daughter, Amazing Grace, The Man from Galilee, and I Saw the Light. The crowds all day, surprised to find someone really famous...
Today, Triple Five, with $4.3 billion in assets, ranks as one of Canada's largest firms. In addition to their megamall in Edmonton, the Ghermezians operate six hotels in the area and a popular local nightclub called Goose Loonie's that features rock bands and dancers in skintight Lycra outfits. The family empire also includes several high-rise apartment buildings in Edmonton and housing developments in the city's sprawling suburbs...
...decade and the show progress, girl groups give way to woman singers, coy jingles to wham- bam sexuality. Says Pattie Darcy, 30, a blond soul stirrer whose repertoire embraces Gore and Franklin: "It shows women letting their hair down, washing the Aqua Net out, giving up their skintight skirts and high heels...
...theme was "Americana" or something like that and the girls all dressed in skintight silver shake-your-stuff suits for a toe-tapping salute to George M. Cohan and for the evening gown competition each semi-finalist was escorted in a knockout dress beneath an archway of uplifted Naval Academy sabers and the cadets lucky enough to accompany the lovely ladies wore Good Humor Man ice-cream suits and Remedial Math dropjaw smiles like a bunch of meatheaded Varsity fullbacks strutting arm-in-arm with prospective Homecoming Queens and for the swimsuit competition the camera played fly-on-the-wall...
...colors, fabrics and shapes seen on bikes could be straight out of Marvel Comics. Alitta, a company based in a loft in New York City's SoHo district, markets a $65 red, white, blue and yellow riding suit that Superman might admire. Dozens of companies offer skintight shorts and for triathlons, events that require running, biking and swimming, suits made of shimmery synthetics in colors like taupe and copper. Jerseys come with two or three pockets for carrying small cargo, and shoes are designed to distribute pressure along the foot. Gloves are usually cut off above the knuckles, Oliver Twist...