Word: overcoat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chain-smoking in a Hollywood deli, his Falstaffian form wrapped in a thrift-store overcoat, Smith scoffs at Gen X pulse takers. Twentysomethings tell pollsters they are industrious, "to present themselves in the best light. But we're not career-driven. You watch your parents work all their lives, and what do they have to show for it? My generation wants to get the most for doing the least." As for politics, he says, "we'd rather talk about the President's infidelity. Look, the dude cheated on his wife...
...France he learned to love the game of bridge, developed a passion for croissants and became a soccer fan; he once pawned an overcoat to buy a ticket for a match. But Deng had landed in a France mired in a deep postwar recession, with few opportunities for a student to support himself with part-time work. He spent most of the next five years working at various menial jobs: arms-factory worker, waiter, train conductor and rubber-overshoe assembler...
...Latin) pulls the audience out of domesticity into the ethereum of its wizardly wit. A man and a woman sit in metal chairs, he reading a paper, she knitting. A child sits before them. Then through a door comes a large figure out of a Magritte painting: long overcoat, umbrella, bowler hat, no head. The child takes the creature's magic hat, puts it on--and dreams the three-hour show. The chairs, the door rise into the air. Benoit Jutras' New Agey music soars with them. A menagerie of demons and sprites glides on stage, primed to amaze. Once...
...AWARDS DOLORES O'RIORDAN of the Cranberries, in black clothes, black hair, lots of midriff and an eccentric overcoat...
...many of his other streetscapes are warmer than comparable pictures by other great names in the same tradition. For the most part DeCarava is less gloomy than Robert Frank, less chilly than Garry Winogrand. What he likes is the way the flouncing liner of a woman's overcoat rhymes with a slice of sunlight as she steps down a stairway. Even though the top of the frame cuts off the upper half of her body, she's not altogether anonymous. He still lets us sense her aplomb...