Word: tuxedoed
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...body like a cancer. Anti-war rage was a powerful leveler, cutting across all Harvard class lines. As one eyewitness wrote, the University Hall occupants included "some people from the Loeb, a couple of guys from the Fly Club, at least one from the Lampoon and one in a tuxedo who just came from a party and was drunk...
Dick Armey, who emerged last week as Washington's biggest obstacle to a minimum-wage increase, is the kind of guy Americans say they want in Congress. After 11 years in Washington, the former economics professor still drives his Ford pickup to work, refuses to wear a tuxedo to obligatory gala dinners and is a connoisseur of drive-through meals, which he devours between meetings in his north Dallas district. (McDonald's hamburgers are more efficient than Wendy's, Armey says, because "they don't drip.") He is as likely to quote Popeye--"I yam what I yam," he told...
...couples who had gotten married today and were running together," Hill-Popper said. "They were wearing like a veil and a tuxedo...
...signs have been there for some years. In the '70s, the Canadian writer Mordecai Richler tried to rent a tuxedo in Hollywood for the Oscars and, he later wrote, confronted "rack upon rack of outrageous evening wear. Purple velvet, ruffles, suede." Richler described what happened when he asked if the store had such a thing as a conventional black tuxedo:"'Yes, certainly,' the tailor said, bringing something out of the back room. 'And now tell me, sir, will you be wearing high heels...
...strategy is presumably based on the assumption that, one, people in the television audience can actually tell which tuxedo was made by which shmattemeister, and, two, once they do, they're going to rush out to buy one just like it because the unemployed flamenco-dancer look is just what they've been striving...