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Ralph: Let me get my coat off, dearest. I want to brace myself on the off chance that someone I love intends to launch a hearty feminist harangue. Am I about to hear that smiling is bad for women...
...troops standing at attention seemed to sway slightly as soldiers moved from one leg to the other trying to keep warm. Looking down from atop the Lenin Mausoleum, members of the Politburo of the Communist Party tugged at the earflaps of their thick fur hats and pulled their coat collars tight. They had braved -7 degrees F weather last week to pay tribute to the late Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov and to witness the sealing of his ashes in a burial niche in the Kremlin wall...
Their paint was like no one else's. Coat after coat was laboriously scraped back with the edge of a meat cleaver and then scumbled again until it looked weirdly provisional, a thin caking of color in the pores of the canvas. The works were gripping yet strangely distant, scratchily insistent rather than speechifying, and their scale was utterly convincing...
...victim said one of the suspects was about 20 years old, 5'8", 140 lbs., had short hair, and was wearing a black leather jacket and jeans; she said the other was about 5'10", had a medium build, and was wearing a suede tan coat with a fur collar...
JOHN CHEEVER never beat his daughter with a coat hanger: he never made her eat raw meat on her hands and knees: and he never hit her over the head with a bottle of bathroom cleaner...