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...that tanned bodies litter patches of green grass from Harvard Yard to the Charles, people-watching has emerged as more than a casual pastime. This blood sport is highly competitive. What to wear? How to wear it? Where to wear...
...stage of the opulent Tchaikovsky Hall, after two months of acrimony and audacity on and off the board, after jitterily watching his obdurate foe almost come from behind and after being driven all the way to the final game in the series, Gary Kasparov at 22 became the sport's youngest world champion. He rang down the curtain on Anatoli Karpov's decade-long top billing with a decisive, 42-move victory, to the obvious delight of a capacity crowd...
...that most of the clothes men wear around the Western regions of the planet are derived from sport or warfare. If that is so--and G. Bruce Boyer, a "private and corporate image consultant," believes it is--then there are rules to be obeyed. Mainstream men's fashion is the business of defining those rules, marketing them and playing subtle little games with them. In the boardroom or the law office, such rules are not flouted, never mind broken. They are nudged gently. The fold of a handkerchief in the breast pocket of a suit jacket, the width...
...expected of you. This combination of business strategy and social stratification has been the guiding principle of men's fashion throughout this century and has resulted in the sort of conformist panache that is essentially militarist. Women wear clothes, but men have uniforms. Suits for business, tuxes for dress, sport coats and English hunting jackets for weekends...
Your review of Howard Cosell's I Never Played the Game [BOOKS, Oct. 28] was ironic. Throughout the book Cosell attacks his critics for taking myopic swipes at his personality, when the value of his work lies in his examinations of the sociology of sport. Your review proves him accurate. Whether Cosell is self-aggrandizing or not is immaterial. The point is that he is singularly capable of engaging a mass audience and forcing them to think about sports in sophisticated terms. Thomas M. Petersen Lafayette, Calif...