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...Inaugural platform. Mrs. Mondale will be wearing a wool skirt and sweater-like jacket of fire-engine red. with a matching overcoat. The contrast with Rosalynn green may be striking. But the costume styling of both women will be functional and a bit, well, conventional. For the people's Inauguration of the avowed no-nonsense new Administration, it should be perfect...
...details of Madame Mao's love of luxury appear every week for the benefit of China's 800 million men and women who live a spartan existence, clothed in the ubiquitous unisex padded jacket and trousers. It has been alleged that Chiang Ch'ing secretly ordered two dozen custom-made dresses in the space of one month, at a total cost of 760 yuan ($400). On a visit to the agricultural commune of Tachai, Chiang Ch'ing "arrived by special train with an entourage of 100 persons," recalled a local official. "Her personal effects...
...been called for traveling and will be out of the game for a while," quipped Henry Kissinger as the Harlem Globetrotters made him an honorary member last week. The slapstick-basketball players presented the outgoing Secretary of State with a team uniform, playing shoes, warmup jacket and an autographed basketball. Standing on an eight-inch-high platform to measure up to his guests, Kissinger approvingly noted that his new uniform bore the number 1. Said Henry: "The numeral accords with my estimate of myself...
...house in Plains, wearing a long, yellow, velour sweater and white sneakers, Carter had his feet crossed on top of his desk. Beside him, balancing thick black notebooks full of Cabinet profiles on his lap, was his young aide, Hamilton Jordan, in a sports shirt and safari jacket, looking just as casual as his boss. Jordan slid his red canvas chair next to Carter and handed over one of the books, reading along with him so closely that his head was almost touching Carter's shoulder. For two hours, looking a little like a father and son discussing homework...
...novelists are any of the three? He has resources, and he uses all of them in pursuit of goals most novelists would not dare attempt. He has had his novel illustrated by not one but two artists. If he could stick an LP by a Vermont fiddler to the jacket and impregnate the binding with the smell of hay and apples-and maybe marijuana-he would do that too. He wants it all. There are writers today who can do one thing as well as Gardner. But with October Light, the question must be asked: Is there another American novelist...