Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chapin country is a pretty, melancholy place; sadness hides behind the lace curtains. It's on the borderline between love and loss, where a lover's rancor is so delicately phrased that it sounds like sisterly advice. Everyone is tyrannized by memories -- of a lonely childhood, of words said and chances missed, of a first love whose sweetness makes everything that follows seem both tame and tawdry. Around here, folks smile to keep from screaming...
Even the then-director, G. Wright Briggs, agreed to lace...
Thigh-highs are all over the stores, selling for between $6 and $60, in black, navy and white, and even plaids, Argyles, fancy lace and silk blends. "It's a lot of fashion for a little price," says Kal Ruttenstein, Bloomingdale's veteran vice president for fashion direction. Comments Benny Lin, Macy's fashion director: "It's not just a metropolitan thing -- it's selling well all over...
...warrior god who represents St. George. This Sunday, Constant is intent on communing with his loa at a temple in the valley north of Gonaives. By the time he arrives at the site -- a concrete hovel -- darkness has fallen. Inside is an altar topped with white lace, a cross and a merry christmas sign. At its base are rum bottles and skulls...
...Splash, Hanks sits at a bar and pours out his lace-valentine heart: "I wanna meet a woman and I wanna fall in love and I wanna get married and I wanna have a kid and I wanna go see him play a tooth in the school play. It's not much." But to ordinary, unique people -- the folks Hanks appeals to, and the folks he so smartly plays -- it's everything...