Word: lapels
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...only as important as the person who insults you," said Peggy Yunque after the infamous Mr. Blackwell chastised Hillary Rodham Clinton for wearing the same lapel pin (designed by Peggy) every day during the 1992 campaign. "That very same crossed-wings pin continues to be one of my most popular classic designs." This iconoclastic jewelry designer began her career as a supplier of replica jewelry for such institutions as the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the New York Public Library and the Walters Art Gallery of Baltimore. A true craftsperson, she makes designs inspired by ancient artifacts rich in symbolic...
Each side played the usual psych-war games in these talks: Gore's team said he wanted lapel mikes for the first debate (that was designed to fool Bush into thinking Gore was going to walk around); Bush wanted swivel chairs for the second debate (to make him look as tall as the Vice President). And for the third debate, the two sides spent a lot of time discussing rules of movement and space in ways that would have made an air-traffic controller proud, including arguments about privacy areas, zones of separation and what constituted interference. "The Bush people...
...even more annoyed by Philadelphia's finest, who are dressed in their finest, who have lapel pins and plastic ear coils and who don't hold a candle to the Secret Service when it comes to politeness, tact and physical fitness. But I love the cops. I mean, they stood their ground this week when zany and stupid protestors tried to provoke them...
...this he did splendidly--a chipper, light-spirited man, always with a fresh carnation on the lapel of his bespoke suits, telling well-turned anecdotes about his favored adulthood and pained childhood. A knighted Anglophile, he risked his career speaking against U.S. isolationism before World War II, fought bravely in it (he was childishly vain about his medals) and was a little resentful, later on, when show biz didn't give him any Old Guy awards. But by then he was the Scarlet Pimpernel of those illusive qualities, grace and charm. He made his living mysteriously--producing and arranging...
...induction ceremony, I was given a rose for my lapel, a little Friars Club pin and a certificate. Many, many unfunny jokes were made about a secret handshake. I had disturbing flashbacks to my induction into the National Honor Society. Not really, but I wanted to mention that I was in the National Honor Society...