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...KNIGHT. Chaucer's "verray parfit gentil" hero could be a killer in a metal dinner jacket, slaying unbelievers when it pleased him. Even so, as Mark Twain speculated about the old warriors, "there was something very engaging about these great simplehearted creatures, (although) there did not seem to be brains enough . . . to bait a fishhook with." The knight has been Galahad, Don Quixote and every tin soldier, in Robert Louis Stevenson's couplet, "With different uniforms and drills/ Among the bedclothes, through the hills." The chevalier now answers the roll call as Rambo and G.I. Joe. He wears camouflage...
...snakes and water buffalo, Banana Republic (Charles Square) offers a pith helmet for $24. In case you're going into Africa, you can spend $42 on pleated front, lightweight cotton chinos at Banana Republic. For those who yearn to take to the skies, an authentic World War II flight jacket, $259, will take you up, up and away...
...watch him shifting gears in the portrait of the elderly head attendant of the asylum, Charles-Elzeard Trabuc, is to receive a vivid lesson in the adjustment of manner to motif. Trabuc's cotton jacket, with its emphatic parallel stripes of blackish-blue, is as explicitly stylized as anything produced within the next quarter-century by Klimt or, for that matter, Miro. But in the head, this graphic energy is subordinated to volume, to the immobile self-containment of a man who, Van Gogh realized, "has seen an enormous amount of suffering and death." The chin and mouth are compressed...
...traditional marriage-eve ritual. Told that the bride must stay awake in bed all night so as not to disturb the henna markings on her hands and feet, Diana remarked, "Poor bride." Later the Princess set Arab tongues wagging when she appeared in a lilac silk- crepe jacket, worn over a mid-calf-length skirt, that prompted fervent speculation as to whether or not she was wearing a brassiere underneath. Popular opinion held that...
Last August Cooperson translated rights and procedures for a Lebanese man in Federal Court, after he was caught at the airport smuggling drugs into this country. "He told me he was a used-car salesman visiting friends in Worcester. Then we started pulling bags of heroin out of his jacket...