Word: caning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great players from my generation, Frank Robinson (who was related to Jackie only in spirit), finally became the first black manager, in 1975. Jackie was gone by then. His last public appearance was at the 1972 World Series, where he showed up with white hair, carrying a cane and going blind from diabetes. He died nine days later...
...emphasize a point under discussion, E.J. Watson once shot the mustache off a man named Brewer. So testifies writer Peter Matthiessen in Killing Mister Watson, the first of three dense, fascinating novels centering on a turn-of-the-century Florida cane planter, brawler and gunman who was shot to death in 1910 by a posse of townsmen...
...blue suede tux from the attic for that extra-special occasion, but for the most part, they're encompassed in a sea of black on black. What to do for some variation? Truly nothing says "I'm hip, I'm with it, I'm tres chic" like a cane. Decorative canes were last in style back in the 1920s, and with swing making a renaissance, canes can't be far behind...
Tony Vo, manager of Classic Tuxedo on Bow Street, doesn't think a cane comeback has much of a chance. "People are too violent," he says. "If they brought canes, they would hit each other." Nevertheless, he has a stockpile of canes in the back room of his store. His personal pick is simple in its elegance--black with white tips--resembling most closely a magic wand. Keezer's near MIT also offers a similar selection at a slightly greater hassle...
...wonder people aren't sporting canes these days. After all, to truly capture the essence of puma, one must travel to a flea market overseas (or Mayfair) to procure a chiseled wooden cane with a carved jackal as the handle. Yeah, baby...