Together, these individuals bedevil lawmakers with their flag-waving and their exaggerations about the alien problem.
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Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
Free of the trappings and exaggerations of the 1980s, fashion had turned to celebrating clothes in their simplest, purest form, with invisible seams and clean lines, devoid of embellishments and in a strictly neutral, pattern-free palette.
As members of Gen X and Millennials became parents, the general trend of having more money and time for children continued, resulting in elaborations of the concept of helicopter parenting.
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