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...would whisper back to me, slapping me upside the head as I reached down to grab a miniature low-fat cupcake from an outlying table. “You have thought, like, about 15 people were Anna Wintour today, and one of them was a man wearing a leopard trenchcoat! You may never see her! She is like the lost city of Atlantis or the director’s cut of “The Magnificent Ambersons.” She is just not meant for the rabble like us. Get over it.”As this conversation took...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taken from the C-List: My Adventures at Fashion Week | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...turned to see a tall, black trenchcoat-clad man with slicked-back hair and heavy black boots about 40 feet away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Police Seeking Motive In Montreal College Shooting | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...most obvious failure was in casting Elliot as Hammer. A shortish guy with a strident, high-pitched voice, he's like a teenager playing Hammer in a school pageant, and he's dressed in a trenchcoat so oversize, it seems to be holding Chuck Bednarik's shoulder pads. Elliot is further undercut by the dialogue. "I like to stick my neck out," he tells Charlotte, "Makes me think I'm tough." (Mike can't have the pretense of toughness; he's got to exude it.) In one scene, Elliot's Mike is knocked out cold when bad-guy Paul Dubov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prince of Pulp | 7/22/2006 | See Source »

...here by Kevin Kline) or the lonesome cowboys, Dusty and Lefty (Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly) that have been a long-standing feature of the show. These figures are present, but worked into a feckless and meandering story, which features "A Dangerous Lady" (Virginia Madsen) in a white trenchcoat, who is actually the Angel of Death, come to claim "The Axeman" (Tommy Lee Jones), who is present to administer the coup de grace to the program. There are a number of subplots in the film, in the best of which Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin play singing sisters, once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Prairie Home Miscalculation | 6/9/2006 | See Source »

...From a bootleg Bob Dylan song: Mollie’s in the Canteen writin’ up a magazine/I’m out on plympton usin’ the word pimpin’/A man in a trenchcoat says he wants to be scoped/better cover the fire alarm, if you want to smoke dope...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Mentions of Fifteen Minutes You Might Have Missed | 12/16/2004 | See Source »

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