Word: boyers
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...kids of this inner-city institute, good manners are medieval, and not in the Pulp Fiction way. And Pierre is nothing if not an anachronism. For a start, the movies haven't dabbled in the image of the suave, kindly Frenchman since Charles Boyer and Louis Jourdan hung up their spats. (For a startle: Malaga's own Antonio as the real-life Pierre? He explains, lamely but gamely, that his mother was Spanish, and that he speaks five languages, "all with a Spanish accent." Anyway, he has the savoir-faire, or unforced machismo, to bring...
...chief license investigator Andrea M. Boyer found employees selling burritos out of white bins outdoors at 2:15 a.m. Patrons inside were seen as late as 2:25 a.m. CPD officers Juan Sanchez and Paul Callahan said that over their time walking the Harvard Square beat, Felipe’s had violated the terms of its license multiple times...
...other hand, Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, argued that "there has to come a time when there are minimum standards, and language is the one criterion that matters most." The American Federation of Teachers, archrival union to the NEA, urged its 15,000 members in Texas to cooperate in the test. Said an AFT spokesman in Washington: "Texas is pumping 3 billion more dollars into education. We'll take a little test if that helps reassure people that teachers are qualified and competent...
...fiddling with the form is greeted with skepticism. Boyer speaks of "the sartorially regrettable 1960s," and Flusser's prose, wobbly at best ("unlike in England, where striped suits are commonplace ..."), goes into nervous collapse at the very mention of the decade. Flusser wants men to stick to a half-century-old notion of tailored splendor, personified by the likes of Cary Grant, Fred Astaire and the Duke of Windsor--all pictured in Clothes and the Man--and exemplified by a range of softly draped clothing, much of it designed by Flusser and also pictured here, frequently...
...Boyer is a lot more easygoing. He knows his scyes (armholes) and his besom (stitched folds) pockets, but he cares little for dogma. He does not fuss about which collar style may be appropriate to a man's face (most, he suggests, are good for all). He provides some lustrous little essays on royal dandies, polyester, loafers and the making of Harris Tweed, which is still turned out by hand, in the Outer Hebrides. The weavers have resisted most new technology, he reports, although they have given up their time-honored method of preparing the yarn for dyeing. Chemicals have...