Word: jacket
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...footage of Forbes eating caviar or McCain losing his cool.) The most telling moment in last Monday's debate grew out of Bush's earlier assertion that he was reading a biography of Dean Acheson. You might have thought he would then take the time to skim the dust jacket, at least. When CNN's Judy Woodruff asked what he had learned from Acheson, Bush neither placed the former Secretary of State in an Administration or with a policy, but blithely clutched at rote nostrums about "the incredible freedoms we understand in the great land called America...
...Wikler '03 sported the Don Johnson look with a Miami-Vice-ish ensemble complete with the open-collar olive shirt and coifed hair. The Driskell-Burton ticket went business and Sterling P. A. Darling '01 went just a little easier on the Dep gel. He even shed his jacket at the podium. (Maybe the council really does pay attention to our humble comments here at The Crimson...
Catherine E. Tenney '01 sported a fashionable turtleneck in this season's neutral tones (even Al Gore '69 is doing it). Plants wore his coat more like a smoking-jacket than the blazer that it was, and Driskell should have done without the diamond bobby pins...
Hazy, smooth, pastel and pretty, the book jacket of Dreaming by the Book was clearly designed to make the potential reader reflect upon the pleasant possibilities of imagination. The author, Elaine Scarry, is our own Cabot professor of aesthetics; her impressive list of honors and credentials attest to the feasibility of the academic study of beauty, which might seem too slippery and subjective to bear such scrutiny. Perhaps we should instead see the seeming incomprehensibility of beauty as an invitation to further study; Scarry has a slim volume on this subject out right now, entitled On Beauty and Being Just...
...Outside, it's cold. Alicia claims her Patagonia Guide Jacket has given up the ghost. Anna can't find her North Face. Mica's all set, but I've provoked JP's jealousy with my brand new Mountain Hardware ensemble...