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Reagan has been following a go-slow regimen so that his body's "cement" can harden properly after major surgery last July for a cancerous polyp in his bowel. The former lifeguard, once cheerily vain about his lifelong "coat of tan," has given up his morning sunbaths and wears a broad-brimmed straw hat to protect his face. These are also doctors' orders, aimed at preventing a recurrence of the skin cancer that was scraped from his nose last month...
...executor), one comes upon two old friends from Jane and Prudence (1953), tyrannical old Miss Doggett and her younger paid companion, the self-effacing Miss Morrow. Their props and surroundings are familiar too: the excellent women "full of good sense," the pampered Anglican priests, the warmth of a musquash coat, the bedtime balm of Ovaltine, the ultimate taste test -- does one take China tea or Indian...
...women, have an insouciance that works as a parody of conventional cool. "They're great fun to wear," says Tom Selleck, television's most agreeable private eye, who often sports custom-made Hawaiian shirts while crime busting in the islands. "And they're murder under a navy linen sports coat." Says Harriet Love, who carries a good supply of prime old Hawaiians at her store in Manhattan's SoHo district, "Grown men are following their antiheroes. Selleck is the '80s adventurer, in a way. He's casual, nice to women, and he wears Hawaiian shirts...
...chuckle out of that. I got out of the cab and I was overwhelmed because the buildings, you know, are really high. I walked east on 42nd Street and then south on Lexington and there was a street fair. It was the summer and I had on a winter coat and was carrying a suitcase. This guy started following me around. He wasn't cute or anything, but he looked interesting. I said hi to him, and he said, "Why are you walking around with a winter coat and a suitcase?" And I said, "I just got off the plane...
Richey said he had considered Thayer's reputation a mitigating factor in the case, but he added that the court would not "hang a medal on the lapel of your coat for the breach of trust, for the false statements . . . and the obstruction of justice you have engaged in in recent years." Lawyers for Harris and Thayer asked that they be given community service in lieu of hard time. But Richey said a stiff sentence was needed "to maintain the integrity of our sacred system of justice...