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Word: outfitted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Actu'lly, th' funniest part of the show is th' costumes. I liked Weston's hobo outfit that makes him look like Emmett Kelly Jr., Wesley's jeans that sit too low in th' seat and that zip instead of button, Ella's sensible shoes with heels th' size of hockey pucks, Emma's cute little shitkickers and Ellis' golden drugstorecowboy suit. I 'specially liked what th' two thugs (Laurence Thomsen n' Eric Oleson) wear: plaid bellbottoms n' white chaps, respectively (n' the yo-yo is a nice touch, Laurence). Not too accurate--no self-respectin' Westerner would be caught...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Just a Story About Some Cowboys | 7/19/1988 | See Source »

Sometimes, of course, our markings may be simply a matter of aesthetics. Popping in a comma can be like slipping on the necklace that gives an outfit quiet elegance, or like catching the sound of running water that complements, as it completes, the silence of a Japanese landscape. When V.S. Naipaul, in his latest novel, writes, "He was a middle-aged man, with glasses," the first comma can seem a little precious. Yet it gives the description a spin, as well as a subtlety, that it otherwise lacks, and it shows that the glasses are not part of the middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: In Praise of the Humble Comma | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

...token white suit--according to New York magazine, he has seven of them--embodies the Southern gentleman in Wolfe, as well as his inherent contradictions. While many point to his representative outfit as indicative of his elitist attitudes, he says he wears the white suit as a mockery of the life he leads...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: A Wolfe in Gentlemen's Clothing | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

...council switched vending companies last month because the outfit originally slated to install the machines refused to assume all insurance costs, as college policy requires, Bramson said...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Condom Machines to Be Installed In Houses, Freshman Union Today | 5/20/1988 | See Source »

...biggest asset -- the vigor that stood in contrast to the sclerotic dusk of the Reagan era. He bottled up his puckish humor and came off as stiff. He eschewed well-tailored suits that could have turned him into a hip-looking heartthrob with a brain, preferring a conservative blue outfit that made him look less a candidate for President than the pilot of his chartered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nova That Stayed Nebulous | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

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