Tear Away

For those who best remember Abigail Breslin with her tear-away pants, gyrating to the Commodores' song "Brick House" while her grandfather cheers her on from the side-lines, well, a lot has happened since then. ❋ Cynthia Ellis (2011)

A spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Ibrahim Hooper, said there are hijabs with tear-away strips designed for sports that the girl could wear. ❋ AP (2011)

"The die is cast," he recalls thinking as lead singer Chris Cornell rumbled, screeched and ripped off one of many tear-away shirts. ❋ Ken Kurson (2011)

The number was written on a small tear-away card, and beneath it were a few lines on which to write requests. ❋ Franklin W. Dixon (2010)

The next day they went to Foot Locker and bought two tear-away basketball warm-up suits. ❋ Frank C. Matthews (2010)

As one friend noted after watching a game with me, "I could be wrong but if I was a betting man I'd say we got kicked out of the bar because you were wearing tear-away pants and flashing your lucky jock strap from high school after every touchdown." ❋ Unknown (2010)

The talk of days made her shift her gaze to the tear-away calendar on the wall by the phone. ❋ DOUG MAGEE (2010)

In recent years, its bad-boy-in-chief has been tear-away fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar, who was banned in 2007. ❋ Richard Lord (2010)

The issue even features a tear-away cover with a second version of the ice cream photo behind it so that readers can easily remove the picture they want and hang it on their walls, a throw-back to teeny-bopper publications with pages and pages of pull-out posters of Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Raise it with Chelsea - nobody wants the kids to suffer because dad has tear-away pants - in a college setting with a non-threatening questioner. ❋ Unknown (2008)