Word: chestnut
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...horses, by the way, are simply tall men in chestnut track suits. On their feet are strutted hooves about 4 in. high. On their heads are airy, stylized masks of interlaced leather and silver wire. These possess such hieratic dignity and beauty that a special citation should be awarded Scenery Designer and Costumer John Napier. How could these noble animals be maimed by a boy who revered them? For answers, Playwright Shaffer digs into his rather voluminous bag of stereotypes. Alan's mother is a frigid religious hysteric, compellingly played by Frances Sternhagen...
...secretary to Humphrey, was named last week in a criminal information filed in federal court by the special prosecutor. Sherman is charged with the misdemeanor of accepting illegal funds from the Associated Milk Producers, Inc. to pay for computerized mailing lists. And Humphrey's onetime campaign manager, Jack Chestnut, was accused in a sworn statement by another Humphrey aide of sending $12,000 in campaign bills to the milk coop, which then paid them...
...bank account, which was maintained by the law firm of Campaign Manager Jack Chestnut, received a "purported personal loan" of $100,000 from Paul Thatcher, treasurer of an organization called "Backers for Humphrey." At the time, federal law also limited campaign loans...
...Both Chestnut and Joseph Johnson, an official of the Mills campaign, refused to testify under oath before the committee, invoking the Fifth Amendment against selfincrimination. Mills declared that the draft report was "distorted" and leaked "to smear me." Humphrey said the report on his campaign was "filled with innuendoes and inaccuracies" and pointed out that it had not yet been considered by the seven Senators who make up the committee. But they could scarcely dispute the staffs conclusion: "It is not the Republican Party which is in need of remedy but rather the process by which we nominate and elect...
...sheer, giddy, lustful triumph, a day to wipe out memories of all the decades of defeat. Down Broad and Chestnut streets wound the motorcade last week while some 2 million zealots, nearly half the population of metropolitan Philadelphia, screamed with delight, threw confetti and fought with sweating cops to get close to their heroes. The Philadelphia Flyers had just won the Stanley Cup, symbol of supremacy in pro hockey, by destroying the Boston Bruins with un-Quakerlike ferocity, and the city had spontaneously taken Monday off to celebrate...