Word: coating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week of my first year's winter (the year Boston received 80-some inches of snow), my starry eyes reflected the snowy pavements. I loved the thought of seasons. Until the snow stayed. And stayed. And the weather dropped below zero. And the prospect of putting on a sweater, coat, gloves, scarf and hat merely to go outside made me never want to leave my dorm again...
...Harvard, "I didn't even bring a coat and tie," he says. "The guy I stayed with let me borrow...
...become his unofficial adviser. "He said, 'Look man, what's going on here? This is the one you say yes to.'" This he finally did after insisting that much of Leonard's dialogue from the novel be restored. "In the original script it said something like, 'Where's my coat? You better find it. It cost $400.' But in the book it was, 'You see a black leather jacket, fingertip length, has lapels like a suitcoat? You don't, you owe me three seventy-nine ... You get the coat back or you give me the three seventy-nine my wife...
...Davis has selected it for his comic mode. The pretension of naivete merely says that even a chowderhead knows enough to hate Nixon. It also lets him approach his monologues after the fashion of Mr. Rogers by setting himself in his own room, speaking earnestly, changing his coat and addressing the audience as though they were close friends. It's something in between an allusion to the TV-generation and a pedagogical forum for national politics and culture...
...these tireless workers told hundreds of Harvard and area college students last weekend at the Institute of Politics 1996 Presidential Campaign Organizing Conference, the job is worthwhile because they love politics, they want to make a difference in the lives of others and because they hate 9-5, coat and tie, desk jobs...