Word: waisted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Magnolias boasts a rather unprepossessing, though cheerful decor. Bright, smiling clay moons and stars prevail over the blue walls, and the kitschy glass lights look like upturned jellyfish. Ceramic armadillos and alligators play musical instruments. Yet, while from the waist up the restaurant exudes kitsch, from the waist down Magnolias looks like a diner: white tile floors and vinyl seat covers. The Glass Menagerie effect is heightened by the patchwork clown dolls and Mardi Gras beads strewn copiously around the small, intimate dining room...
...prod. Air Taser Inc., in Scottsdale, Ariz., manufactures an air gun that can zap an assailant 15 ft. away with two fishhook-like darts connected by thin wires to the power unit. Stun Tech Inc., in Cleveland, Ohio, produces an electrobelt that wraps around a prisoner's waist. If the prisoner becomes unruly, a guard pushes a button on a transmitter to deliver a searing charge straight to the kidneys...
Romance, it seems, won't be fleeting. While some may be tempted to write off the move toward adornment as a mere function of the blooming economy, it's important to remember that prosperity has been ours for some time. Last fall's stilettos and minis slit to the waist presented a crude, aggressive sexuality women chose largely to ignore. These were clothes, it seemed, for the woman always carrying around an extra ice pick in her purse, not the one just hoping for a lively Saturday-night dinner date. Women, though, were ready for clothes that invited some attention...
...exhibitionist. I'm an actor! I hadn't had a 29-in. waist since I was probably, like...
...helpmate who would fight with him. He also said that he didn't need a woman to say, "Them days is over," when asked to fetch him a glass of water. For all the sisters who almost passed out during that exaggerated shot that moved from his waist to his face during the groundbreaking movie Waiting to Exhale, the shot that received a standing ovation in the theatre that I was in, a change has come. In U.S. Marshals, he's moved on to a more compassionate woman. His character in this movie is dating a French Starbucks waitress named...