Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Addicted Amateur With gray-black locks dangling in ringlets over his black velvet jacket, Stuart Pivar, 49, resembles an apparition from one of the dark Victorian paintings of which he is an avid collector. A New Yorker who owns several plastics companies, he accumulates paintings and bronzes because "there is nothing more exciting than to have great objects of art around." He concentrates on 19th century academics, pre-Raphaelites and symbolists, because at the time he began collecting 20 years ago they cost relatively little. Hofstra-educated Pivar has steeped himself in his field since then, reading exhaustively and traveling...
They met in the same gray Renaissance palace where the Inquisition put Galileo on trial. But the Vatican called last week's meeting a mere "series of talks." Over coffee, a Dominican priest- theologian, Edward Schillebeeckx, 65, clad casually in a tweed sports jacket, sat answering respectful questions from three other theologians. In case of need, a theological counsel for the defense, Schillebeeckx's dean at Nijmegen University in The Netherlands, stood by in an adjacent room...
...Press customers are still buying natty clothes, but not so many of them. "Instead of buying two suits and a jacket, someone will buy just a suit and a jacket," manager Joseph Porta said. "People don't know what the future will bring but they do know that we have an after-Christmas sale," he added...
...sheep skin running suit is a must for cold-weather joggers. The jacket costs $395 and the pants $275, and the company spokesman said that the suit is appropriate for status seekers who jog in warm climates. For the golf-minded, the store offers western-style cowboy golf boots with cleats...
Piggy has undergone drastic transformations. The victim of society's malevolence is now a deformed orphan, charred in the London blitz, and tortured in true Dickensian from by a perverted teacher in the Foundlings School who enjoy's fondling. The dust jacket labels it a brilliant exploration of weirdness...