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...three-button dove-gray vest, an outfit for which Reagan's Beverly Hills tailor, Frank Mariani, will charge him $1,250. Average rental price of a similar suit for Washington dignitaries: $42. The new President has no head for toppers. Nancy has a new mink in the closet, but may forgo it in favor of a Republican cloth coat. The Reagans' attire will be a considerable departure from the populist style of the Carters. For his Inauguration, Jimmy Carter wore a $175 suit he had bought off the rack a week before, which was consistent with his announced...
Popular censorship, for one thing, induces fearful teachers and librarians to practice what Jenkinson calls "closet censorship...
Haunted by the memory of the 1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire that killed 504 persons, Boston has one of the nation's most stringent fire codes. Every building over 70 ft. tall, for instance, must have a sprinkler in every room, closet and corridor. Just as important, owners of some existing buildings have voluntarily modernized their fire-safety systems. The venerable seven-story Copley Plaza was built in 1912, but its owners are spending $460,000 to install smoke alarms in every room after an arsonist's blaze in 1979 killed two people...
Everett Ladd, director of the University of Connecticut's Social Science Data Center, says flatly: "I am 100% certain that there was no 'closet Reaganism' in this election." Other pollsters tend to agree. But there is some evidence that suggests otherwise. Before the election, only 7% of the blacks surveyed by New York Times-CBS News said they were going to vote for Reagan; Election Day exit polling showed that 14% had ac tually cast their ballots for the Californian. But when re-polled by New York Times-CBS News, only 6% of blacks admitted they...
...could - and did - drug Sue Ellen (Lin da Gray) and steal her gun, proceed to the Ewing Oil Building, shoot that triple-timing cad in the gut, deposit the unconscious Sue Ellen at an airport parking lot, and later plant the gun in J.R.'s bedroom closet, thus implicating Sue Ellen. Confronted with her guilt, Kristin announced she was pregnant with J.R.'s child, and dared him to put her in jail, leaving her ex-lover in a quandary and the TV audience wondering what sort of offspring these vipers could produce...