Word: flannels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most everything else they sell. I've bought cassette tapes, flannel pajamas, four-pound bags of Tootsie rolls for my high school It's Academic quiz show team, and a Dustbuster. My parents bought a porch umbrella once. We regularly get crates of soda and enormous bottles of detergent...
There is a relaxed, nonhierarchical atmosphere as the seven young managers of the "WebDVD" group, all in the standard winter uniform of khakis and flannel shirts, gather in a windowless conference room near Gates' office. They have been working for almost a year on a digital videodisc intended to provide content along with Web browsing for television sets, and he wants to review their progress before leaving for Japan, where he will meet with such potential partners as Toshiba...
...Lives of Superheroes" is an unusual romantic comedy that chronicles a blind date set up by a psychiatrist between two of his patients. Standing alone in his living room, in his guy-at-home uniform of worn jeans, flannel shirt and socked feet, Michael (David Egan) likes to imagine himself lecturing at Carnegie Hall on the sex lives of superheroes. Eleanor (Abigail Gray) likes to rewrite love stories into tragedies--"Or, if they're already tragic but in a really noble way, I rewrite 'em so they're squalid and bitter." What's keeping this perfect pair apart? Only Michael...
...wheelchair reclined at a 35-degree angle, Ellison is covered in a green plaid flannel blanket...
...professor recently quoted an October 13, 1993 article in the Boston Globe, still disconcertedly timely, in which Michael Grunwald christened this trend the Gapification of America. (Ironically enough, not only did most of the people in the class look the part, but two women were wearing nearly identical Gap flannel shirts over their light blue jeans). In this ultimate triumph of Gap culture," Grunwald writes, we are players in and spectators of the "commercial homogenization of the middle classes...