Word: jacketful
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...admission for openers. I am a bit lonely here, I'm bored, and I'm no longer convinced that it's because of the cut of my jacket or the feebleness of my own mind. For what I sense to be happening in Cambridge is that nothing is happening in Cambridge. We've felt so much, tried so hard in so many ways to bring some real humanity into the academy, and we've failed. And now no one's publicly trying very hard any more. The theatres, magazines and this newspaper are largely devoted to more-of-the-same...
...profusely for the belt he was wearing. Alligator, of course. Equally well made was a point about the dangers that the fur trade poses to the world's great cats; on view among the ladies were eight leopard coats, two ocelot coats, a cheetah suit and a tiger jacket with matching handbag. Their hostess, Princess Grace of Monaco, even showed up splendidly attired in a coat made of wild mink with matching turban...
...years pastor of the church of Santa Maria Delle Grazie in the drab, working-class Florentine suburb of Isolotto. On the theory that conventional methods would have no impact on his parishioners, most of whom regularly vote Communist or Socialist, Mazzi shucked his cassock and collar for the jacket and high-necked sweater of the Italian workman...
...copy on the jacket offers the guidance that a relates a day in the life of Ondine, one of the exotics who lounge in Warhol's Velvet Underground. There is the added information that the day begins with Ondine ingesting a quantity of amphetamine, ends 24 hours later "in an orgy of exhausted confusion...
...people with some interesting names: Rotten Rita, the Sugar Plum Fairy, the Duchess, Billy Name, Irving du Ball, Paul Paul, Taxine, Moxanne and Ingrid Superstar. What they are actually doing, as opposed to what they are saying, is difficult to fathom from the transcript of the tape. The jacket blurb again is helpful: "The Duchess, who has stolen 3,000 pills and a blood-pressure machine, is in the hospital; Ondine dresses in drag for an evening at the 'teenage whore house'; Taxine confesses to Ondine why she must hang out with Andy; the Duchess escapes from...