Word: capri
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take stands for fashion. Notorious for uncoordinated outfits that fail miserably in dealing with the swampy heat of Washington summers, professionals stick to suits (for men) and suits (for women). People who put concerted thought into their garments or wear anything not considered "classic," like the only woman wearing capri pants during the morning rush, scream "tourist...
...officers' coup deposed Farouk in 1952, but exile did not disrupt his opulent gluttonies. One morning in Capri, as Farouk consumed a breakfast that included 10 eggs, he told a group of newsmen, "You will smile at this, but any man who has considerably less than he has been accustomed to feels he is a poor man." A monstrous appetite proclaims a needy heart. Farouk died at 45, when his heart surrendered after a midnight supper and a cigar...
...Capri pants are casual women s slacks which reach to the lower calf. The term derives from capric acid, an organic acid (C10H20O2) found as a glyceride in goat fat. Capri pants earned their name in England in the 1920s when a gentleman remarked that a woman wearing ankle-length summer pants looked like a pudgy goat...
...example, Leigh says, around 100 evolutionists, astronomers and biologists get together every three years for a bioastronomy conference on the subject. The last conference was held in Capri, Italy...
...know you are speaking to a truly soulful craftsman. "Something about it immediately attracted me," he explains. "Not everything goes through the brain; some things go straight through the heart." Elbaz's clothes--pink and white dresses of layered tulle with dainty streams of sequins, billowy-sleeved jackets and Capri pantsuits--are so achingly beautiful that when the designer came to Manhattan to launch the line at a small show for select shoppers and members of the fashion press, at least one enraptured audience member actually began to tear...