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...pissed off," he says right away, sipping his beer. It's hard to generalize about what a professional athlete looks like--Brayton doesn't wear a suede jacket and smoke Tiparillo Slims: maybe that's what the successful ones affect. Brayton is dressed in a kind of messy, informal Brooks Brothers, probably the same way he dressed a few years back when he was in the Owl Club. His life now, two and a half years after graduation, is closer to that limbo of college than that of his contemporary alumni, who have neatened up by now. Brayton's still...
Wearing a black gabardine jacket, jeans and black ballet slippers, she gyrates around the stage like a Jagger in drag, hips pumping and fists punching the air. "We're gonna have a real good time together!" she cries. "We're gonna talk and shout and shoot together...
...longer just heavy rugs, furs now come in lighter weights, often in combination with leather, with removable foul-weather covers, and in a rainbow of nonnatural colors. Some new items: a burgundy-colored opossum jacket selling briskly in Manhattan stores for $600; Designer Calvin Klein's $3,000 celery-green kimono-style mink jacket at top department stores around the country. Especially popular are inexpensive jackets priced as low as $70, made of sewn-to-gether "plates"-fragments of paws, underbellies, and other less-than-prime skins...
...Last week, as I knelt beside the mat wearing the JV uniform for the first time, I fingered the letters on the jacket and I just broke out in a smile thinking about it," he continued...
MARK HELPRIN LOOKS well-scrubbed. His face, in a vaguely romantic photograph on the back of the dust jacket, is clean-cut and clean-shaven; the face of a liberal, New York-bred college graduate. It comes as no surprise is that he went to Harvard. What is more of a surprise is that he once served in the British merchant navy, the Israeli infantry, and the Israeli Air Force. In the title story, "A Dove of the East," and in others scattered throughout the book, Helprin re-creates the people and places of his travels. The settings of these...