Word: though
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...trend, which first cropped up last spring, has blossomed into big business, due in large part to the widespread acceptance of more casual dress, both in the office and for evenings out. "Even though they're expensive in the world of T shirts, they're cheap in the scheme of things, because they're versatile," says Kal Ruttenstein, fashion director at Bloomingdale's, which has seen T-shirt sales jump significantly over the past six months. "They can be worn with jeans or under a $1,000 jacket, and they've replaced blouses and sweaters for the office...
...Elizabeth Taylor, though, who became the most famous, and the silliest, Cleopatra, long ago in the early '60s, in an apocalyptically awful movie that was at the time the most expensive ever made--much of the expense being run up in the care and feeding of Elizabeth Taylor and her dipsomaniacal Welsh Antony, Richard Burton...
...nostalgia others feel for their bright college years. "My cell was over there," he says. "That was the interrogation room. That's where the guards ate." As he speaks, Vietnamese pedestrians walk by and give him and his press entourage quizzical looks. Young boys try to sell him postcards. Though this is the week Vietnam celebrates the 25th anniversary of its victory, in a country where 53% of the population is under 25, the "American War" is a fading memory...
...hard not to hope that these two will get what they want, even though they sometimes seem unsure of what that might be. Half a Heart not only keeps its eventual outcome engagingly in doubt but also accomplishes a remarkably evenhanded treatment of its racially charged subject. Some whites and some blacks may dislike parts of what they read, which will only demonstrate that Brown is writing very close to the bone...
...Though it's never too late to start, Nelson urges women to begin pumping iron at least by their 30s and 40s, because that's when bones start to thin. Lifting weights for 30 min. two to three times a week can slow or even reverse that bone loss. Don't be worried about bulging muscles; women produce too little testosterone to really bulk...