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Imagine Bugs Bunny blended with the Joker and you’ll get a sense of Nimona, an impish, shape-shifting villain who presents as a pink-haired, miniskirted punk but prefers to buck description.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2023

Ek’s miniskirted Juliet has such a sassy millennial will that she literally knocks her parents off balance when she refuses, with full-bodied force, the arranged marriage they have concocted.

From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2016

In brilliant sunshine its central boulevards were thronged with local oddities: pigeon-fanciers, Ukrainian body-poppers and a miniskirted cowgirl folk-drumming troupe, while in the heart of the fanzone a slice of England had erected itself.

From The Guardian • Jun. 24, 2012

Mirren, who made her filmed-Shakespeare debut 42 years ago as a miniskirted Hermia in Peter Hall's A Midsummer Night's Dream, is, at 65, finally a movie star.

From Time • Dec. 31, 2010

The chain's concept is "multigenerational," which in plain Valleyspeak means that gum- snapping, Walkman-toting ingenues and their miniskirted moms can sport the same fashions, from flowered denim shorts to psychedelic bikinis.

From Time Magazine Archive