Word: length
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Most Resurgent Decade Nineties fashions hitched a ride back to the '60s. Skirts hiked back up to mini length. Widened ties boasted loud colors. Headbands returned. Designers even resurrected Jane Fonda's Barbie-goes-to- Armageddon sado suits...
...telephones into more soundproof rooms, we extended phone lines with lamp wire. At safer hours we slipped up and down corridors to meet together in different apartments. On the hall floor outside my apartment, I positioned a piece of broken mirror against the wall so that the entire length of the corridor was visible from my partly open door. It was a group rule that everyone checked the mirror before stepping into the hall. When we made visits, knocks on the door required still another code...
...some regulars are disenchanted by what has been happening to the Bow. Two such men are the Pappas brothers, Peter and George. George has a short haircut with long tail and sports two arm length tattoos of wizards, dragons and other fantastic creatures. His brother Peter is missing two front teeth and wears a black t-shirt...
After Solidarity candidates swept last year's parliamentary elections, it was Walesa who chose Mazowiecki, then a close adviser, to serve as Prime Minister. Walesa expected to be a power behind the throne, but Mazowiecki kept his old colleague at arm's length. Walesa brought his resentment onto the campaign trail, complaining at one rally that though he had a special phone line installed at his Gdansk headquarters to connect him with Mazowiecki's office, "it never rang." With his hearty manner and working-class accent, Walesa derided Mazowiecki as an intellectual out of touch with ordinary Poles...
...alive the Age of Aquarius. While Michael Aymar, 32, was on Wall Street as a bond trader, he kept his hair short, following an unwritten code. But last year, yearning for his student days, he asked his bosses at an ad agency if there was a policy on hair length. He got no reply, and today his ponytail is 4 in. long...