Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bolt of cloth was sent along to Beverly Hills Tailor Frank Mariani, who makes all of Reagan's suits. He went to work with the quiet confidence that comes from knowing his customer's taste: two-button coat, medium-width lapels, pleated trousers and six buttons on the fly. For $1,200 the suit was a beauty, and Mariani suspected back then that it might be destined for fame. "The President likes his clothes," explains Mariani. "He builds a fondness for them...
...Stallone appears slighter in person than he does on the screen. But on the slender legs of a runner resides the torso of Charles Atlas. His face is healthily gaunt: rosy but hollow cheeks guard the languid brown eyes. When the yellow cloth fell from the 8½-ft, $70,000 movie-prop bronze statue, Stallone gazed upon his features on the face of a fiction. That confrontation has taken place before. Rocky has made the star wealthy ($25 million from the first two installments), a leading man the equal of an Eastwood or a Reynolds, and a budding Hollywood...
...Gross, thought and tension made flesh, is one of the supreme 19th century portraits, and the drama of contrast between the dense masses of black suits and gloomy tiers of students, and the swooning white of the patient's thigh surrounded by anxious straining hands and white cloth, reaches its apex in the fresh blood on Gross's hand and the retracted lips of the wound. Such imagery alarmed Philadelphian taste a century ago; The Agnew Clinic was rejected from the Pennsylvania Academy's exhibition in 1891 because it depicted a mastectomy for cancer...
...also said that after arresting Neghio Ngo, officer Simas found a second Molotov cocktail--a bottle filled with gasoline and stuffed with a cloth wick--near the tree that Ngo hid behind...
...than collar! Now able to deliver long sermons in a single breath! Look! Up in the pulpit! It's a man! It's a priest! It's Christopher Reeve not playing Superman! In Monsignor, the Man of Steel quick-changes to become a man of the cloth. Reeve, 29, plays an Irish Catholic priest from New York's Lower East Side who rises to become a Cardinal. The actor, a lapsed Episcopalian, spent seven weeks taking Catholic instruction from Paulist priests. For one location scene in Sicily, he performed a Communion rite for 300 extras. Recalls...