Word: jacketted
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...audience frequently interrupts Jackson with applause, but it is polite applause, not the huzzahs of which American political dreams are made. Afterward, a man in a brocade dinner jacket observes: "A great evening, just a great evening." But the pros in Jackson's entourage know better. They are unhappy with most of the speech, know that it lacked fire and vision, that Jackson should have had this audience standing on the tables. After dinner, a Los Angeles businessman approaches two of Jackson's aides and says: "I know he's a great...
...that anyone would ever guess that from watching Carter in action. He is a shy man with a quizzical manner. He looks uncomfortable even in a jacket. When he does take the stage-say, to deliver a few explanatory words about his music, as he did last week at the Composers Quartet recital-he tends to flap his hands and remain winningly untheatrical...
...seems that this thriller writer is not trying to put anything over on anybody. Two years ago, he announced on the jacket of his first book, The Godwulf Manuscript, that he had written his doctoral dissertation on Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Both of Robert Parker's novels, about a private eye known simply as Spenser, are filled with echoes of the masters. But Parker is really not a pirate. Instead, he resembles film makers like Jean-Luc Godard, who pay homage to great directors of the past with little vignettes so blatantly similar in style that no aficionado...
...tall man in the London-tailored suit and woolen muffler sipped his coffee and carefully observed the husky blond in the pea jacket. Then embattled ex-CIA Director Richard Helms threw caution to the wind. He stepped over to ask whether "I was encountering as many difficulties as he had been experiencing lately," explained Robert Bedford. The star is playing a CIA man on the run in the film adaptation of James Grady's novel Six Days of the Condor. Helms had dropped by at the suggestion of the movie's director, Sydney Pollack. Helms did not engage...
...lodge and the chairlift lines snaking at its base swelled during these hours. All those beautiful people, each with nearly $800 worth of ski equipment, straining and shoving to get a glimpse of the athletic president and wondering what brand of skis he would use and what color jacket he would wear...