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...that steps from a tumultuous gray sea backdrop through a slanted window wearing hiking boots, khaki pants and a red button-down? He is the same man who trudges around in dirty pajamas with socks falling off his feet for over half of the play in which he stars. He responds with a thumbs-up when asked "How goes it?" and sings a biblical quote in an Elvis impersonation. He is truly an unusual Hamlet...
...that you can't adjust to in a few minutes, a few stripes, plaids in shorts, maybe a funky belt or snazzy pair of socks, but nothing that would ever seem threatening to a high school principal. Gapified clothes are crisp twill pants, slightly tapered jeans, solidcolor turtlenecks, soft button-down shirts in softer colors. You know what they are. You are wearing some...
Clean-cut Young Independents in ties and button-down shirts hung out next to scruffy members of the liberal Cambridge Tenants Union (CTU), snacking on baklava and cookies from the Longfellow PTA bake sale set up outside the gym. Conservative Independents joked with members of the progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), although Vellucci, an Independent, and Cyr, a member of the CCA, are currently battling it out for the crucial ninth council seat, which will give one group a majority on the council...
AMERICAN SCENE A calypso beat in button-down New England...
Calypso-flavored steel drumming is not the average class offering at Choate, where students dress like L.L. Bean models and carry lacrosse sticks across carefully manicured lawns. Located in Wallingford, Conn., 12 miles north of New Haven, it is the button-down boarding school boasting such notable alumni as John F. Kennedy and Glenn Close -- a place of birch and magnolia trees and Colonial Revival brick buildings with white trim, intimate dormers and gilded towers...