It was neither ultra-short and tight nor long and clinging.
About half the inmates remain incarcerated until their "natural" deaths, while the remainder serve long sentences, clinging to the slim hope that they will one day be released.
But, actually, Klass was describing something that isn't necessarily that desirable: an elderly person living in a home she can no longer heat, clean or look after, the neighbours she once knew long gone, clinging to the past instead of living in and enjoying the present.
Long hair cling better to the wax than short one, so they're easily removed.
A padded jumpsuit was reminiscent of the effeminate 80s designer Claude Montana, while chaps were made out of rough shearling and worn over clinging long johns.
That kind of innovation indicates how fusion elements are creeping into the cuisine of a city long known for clinging to the classics.
The days of Texas as a one-party state in the grip of Democratic control are long gone, and clinging too hard to party or ideology is a recipe for failure in the state capitol.
Of course, many on the political right, and even at the center, would argue that the old lefties helped do themselves in, by cozying up to the Soviet Union for too long and by clinging to an ultimately discredited ideology of Big Government as Mr. for-It for every social ill.
They turn out not to figure much in the plot, appearing — or rather, half-appearing — only a handful of times: once, while crossing a creek, Sally feels "a cold, wet wormy thing" on the back of her leg and flicks it off; a decade later, miles downriver, she glimpses "some kind of water snake or maybe a salamander or a newt," its "long-fingered hands clinging to the curve of a rock".
But we continue to pay a horrible price for clinging too long to Iran's shah.
