Word: jacketted
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Fourteen years ago, members of the French Academy unleashed a monumentally unsuccessful offensive against the invasion of Franglais, which brought le smoking (dinner jacket) and le footing (a walk) into the language of Racine and Corneille. Now French speakers in Belgium want to rid their vocabulary of a similar disease - Belglais. Leading the campaign is Parliamentarian Antoinette Spaak (daughter of the late statesman Paul-Henri Spaak). She wants a law that would penalize Belglais-speaking government officials 65? to $2.50 per offense, depending on how flagrant it is ruled...
...contrast, artists like Ben evoke the colors and textures of the bird-of-paradise and dragonflies on Tropical's jacket--with a tremendous beat beside which disco and Motown sound pale. The rhythms have generally been slowed down until they sound like reggae, for the benefit of those unaccustomed to the frenetic pace of, say, the extemporaneous music that blossoms at every Rio street corner come Carnival time...
...heats entirely by wood. Says he: "My main occupation is splitting billets of maple and birch." Being in good shape helped on his first interview with Ronstadt, when he suddenly found himself jogging up Fifth Avenue at 10 p.m.-she in Frye boots and lynx coat, he in jacket...
...wearing a lynx jacket, for which (as she chugs sturdily toward 72nd Street) she apologizes. Her environmentalist friends have scolded her, she says...
Paunchy, amiable and given to wearing an American-flag pin on the jacket of his colorful leisure suits, Flynt today commands an enterprise that occupies parts of two Columbus office buildings and has more than 150 employees. Associate publisher and chief aide is Althea Leasure, 23, whose prior publishing experience consisted of posing nude for an early Hustler. Larry and Althea, who were married last August, occupy a 27-room Columbus mansion in which they have installed a swimming pool, gold plumbing fixtures, a heart-shaped bathtub and three servants...