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...atmosphere within the stadium was moneyed and genteel. In front of my seat (halfway down the third-base line) was a tie-and-jacket, there was a tie-and-jacket to my left, and behind me and slightly to my right, two fur coats. Especially at the start of the game, it seemed as if an entire Boston Symphony Orchestra audience had mistakenly shown up, somewhat bewildered but nonetheless quite polite, at a baseball stadium. The crowd--or rather, the audience--was not so much enthusiastic as appreciative. They did not clap, they applauded; and if they did clap, they...
...which the President will choose his winter wardrobe, there will be none of the plaids, brightly striped shirts and rainbow-hued ties that Ford favors. Instead he will be urged to choose solid shades or conservative stripes in his suits and shirts, quietly striped or solid-color ties, and jackets with a conventional single vent. Rosenthal's success in the remaking of a President is far from assured. According to Betty Ford, her roommate never throws anything out. Recently, when White House Photographer David Kennerly kidded him for wearing a jacket with lapels wide enough to take wing...
Casting Springsteen as a rebel in a motorcycle jacket is easy enough-it makes a neat fit for the character he adopted in Born to Run-but it ignores a whole other side of his importance and of his music...
Still, the Boss was sufficiently uncertain of his musical future to quit school altogether. He enrolled in Ocean County College, showed up in what is still his standard costume-Fruit of the Loom undershirt, tight jeans, sneakers and leather jacket-and was soon invited round for a chat by one of the guidance staff. As Springsteen tells it, the counselor dropped the big question on him immediately. "You've got trouble at home, right...
...slow day Western history might be reduced to a tale of two apples. The first comes wrapped in art and myth: Eve took the bite and mankind got its eviction notice from Paradise. The second is baked in its own apocryphal jacket: Isaac Newton got his deep insight into gravity when struck by a falling fruit. Result: a new brand of physics that relocated us even farther from the godhead-and a reverse anthropomorphism that saw the human body as a machine. Today Adam Smith implies the West has an urge to work its way back, past technology, past...