Word: outfitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...roots to the turn of the 19th century, when a colorful, 6-ft. 4-in. character named Colonel Robert Hall moved to San Antonio, Texas, from his home in Tennessee. A sepia-toned photo of him is framed in Bezos' living room and shows the man wearing a bizarre outfit stitched together from dozens of different kinds of animal pelts. The settler favored that multicolored garment in later years. "When he walked down the streets of San Antonio, the crowds would part," says Jackie Bezos, Jeff's mother and the family historian...
...Velazquez finished it on the march, as it were; though known at court as a pintor flematico, a phlegmatic painter, he whipped it off in a few days. The head of the King, with its long and beautifully blended brushstrokes, looks very considered; less so his magnificent red outfit, which is pure Impressionism 200 years early--the broken touches of the silver brocade and their black shadings mix on the eye, producing a delectable liveliness, a scribbled spontaneity that no other 17th century artist could rival...
...hundreds of millions of captive viewers -viewers who tend to have disposable income and impressionable personalities and I want to wear your clothes. I'll be a walking advertisement for you! I'll be a.... You'll look damn good on MTV when you have a different designer outfit on every day. And more importantly, six months laterafter your tortuous sojournyou pack your boxes to send home with six months worth of designer outfits....Jennifer Lopez recently proclaimed that she could sell coffee using my rear-end as a ledge. And she's trying to get respect as an actress...
...Kids think that he's the real Santa!" one proclaims, and the others chime in to agree. "He's great," they say, as Savage buttons up his own, equally Christmasy outfit of a green cardigan sweater over a red shirt...
...however, he would have realized how unpleasant it is. In reality, kids have little personal freedom and even less privacy. Their lives are constantly regulated by their parents in the form of curfews and dress codes and scrutinized by their peers--ew, where did you like, dig up that outfit? Those who resent the authoritarian aspects of Harvard's administration would do well to remember the absolutism of high school regulations, which included uniforms, rules against public displays of affection, bans on beepers, requirements to use only transparent bookbags and educational requirements that make the core system seem like ultimate...