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...were with three or four friends, standing on the sidewalk along Plympton Street. I couldn't see all of you very well, and I really didn't want to. You all sounded drunk and you were laughing. One of your friends wore what looked like a Harvard jacket...
Still, Landsbergis seems an unlikely conductor of Lithuania's symphony of defiance. With his brown beard, wire-rim glasses and brown corduroy jacket, he looks every bit the egghead that he is. A pianist at heart and a professor of music by trade, Landsbergis is more comfortable before a keyboard than a crowd; the music he sends up from the ivories is far more lyrical and moving than the political articles he pens. He is married to a fellow pianist, Grazina, and is proud that his family is caught up in the struggle for independence. "All of them are emotionally...
Gazing gravely down at the traffic along the Rue de Rivoli from his niche on the facade of the Louvre, General Jean-Baptiste Kleber looks sleek and elegant in his long hose, thigh-high boots and short spencer jacket. If his stone eyes could have seen the roiling human traffic around the museum as the ready-to- wear fashion shows were held last week, he might have been amused to observe that he was back in style again after 200 years. But his dashing look is a la mode for women...
...well, short stemmed? High boots help the proportions. More important to the complete look is the top, which may actually extend downward to the thigh. More ingenuity and inspiration went into this element of the silhouette than into any other. It's a great year for the jacket...
...past, Roth does it with the literary equivalent of fun-house mirrors. The Roth-like character in Deception is a distortion of Roth, the man in the book-jacket photo whose intense gaze can penetrate 18 inches of solid Philistine. Readers attempting to nail the real Roth end up with a tinkling of broken images...