Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most people the pleasure lies in the atmospherics, the dressing up and stepping out. After a few years of deafening disco, couples appreciate chandeliers that do not revolve, single-sex bathrooms, peachy lighting, a buttery floor, music they can talk over or sing to. Some people take care to dress the part, the men in black tie, the women in suede-bottom shoes and vintage gowns, or handmade black taffeta Gay Nineties skirts set off with antique purses and peacock feathers in their hair...
...Reagan has purchased all the designer clothes she has worn in the past seven years, that would be not only a considerable expense but a departure from her previous habits. "I can't afford a $5,000 dress," she joked to the Los Angeles Times in 1980 after her expensive tastes were noticed. "I don't know anyone who can." That was a bit of hyperbole. Moreover, the President's current salary of $200,000 a year could cover the cost of many made-to-order outfits...
Personal Appearance: In a short 30-minute interview, it's definitely a big factor. Dress appropriately for the role you're aspiring to fill...
...part, Pinochet vowed not to go quietly. Wearing a crisp dress-white uniform, the general accepted "the verdict of the majority" but pledged "to complete my mandate with a patriotic sense." He buttressed the point by refusing to accept the resignation of his 16-member Cabinet, which then agreed to stay...
Nothing escaped Degas's prehensile eye for the texture of life and the myriad gestures that reveal class and work. He made art from things that no painter had fully used before: the way a discarded dress, still warm from the now naked body, keeps some of the shape of its wearer; the unconcern of a dancer scratching her back between practice sessions in The Dance Class, 1873-76; the tension in a relationship between a man and a woman (Sulking, 1869-71) or the undercurrent of violence in an affair (Interior, sometimes known as The Rape...