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Fashion ripples this way and that, of course. The convergence of several black lines does not necessarily add up to a great darkening. Besides, Braun calculators are terrific looking; black dinner jackets are preferable to sky blue dinner jackets; better a posturing young poet, surely, than a buttondown teenage arbitrager in chinos. But why all black and why now? The color is gunpowder and midnight; the message is menace and highly private pleasure. --By Kurt Andersen
...Lowry to the 260-plus-person Literature and Arts A-18: “Fairy Tales” class. Lowry, who lives in Cambridge and has written over 30 books including The Giver, Number the Stars and the Anastasia series, resembles a spunky, low maintenance grandmother in her red buttondown sweater. This comforting and casual statement fits with her unassuming thoughtfulness evident as she starts to speak about her novel, Number the Stars, which the class recently studied...
...Maybe some people wish it were dead," he said. He pointed out the skeptics in the crowd, sitting like silent gods on the periphery--and cupping their hands to whisper clever comments to camel-haired coats from Radcliffe and B.U. "Filter-tip cigarettes and buttondown brains," said the Spirit of Rock 'n' Roll. "They come as a form of social entertainment...
Outfitted in blue jeans, brown canvas shoes-and sometimes a white buttondown shirt with the collar left unbuttoned-the Squire of Libertyville puttered around his twelve-room house and 71-acre farm last week, getting ready for the campaign's call to alarms. Adlai Ewing Stevenson, as the Democratic presidential nominee, had work to do, but his chores as a top news figure were ordained by a flock of newshawks. He was photographed clipping rosebushes, climbing fences, chasing sheep, petting dogs, pulling corn, bringing in the mail, hauling groceries...
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