Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Remember when the gift of a vicuna coat was enough to get a respectable Republican hounded out of Washington...
...Naive and Sentimental Lover. The knowledgeable thought it a roman à clef, a riposte to Some Gorgeous Accident, written by Cornwell's close friend, the late novelist James Kellavar. Both books concerned misadventures of two men in love with the same woman. Lover had not a belted trench-coat in sight?and the book proved the sole bomb of the Le Carré career. It also coincided with the end of the Cornwell marriage. "Like all divorces, it was awful," he concludes tersely. "We both very quickly remarried, and we both have second families." Ann married a British diplomat; a year...
...live in Southern California. She lacks the spooky older brother of Annie Hall (she has a younger brother, unspooky, and two younger sisters). But there is general agreement that the dinner scene, in which Alvy imagines that "Grammy Hall" sees him with yarmulke, full beard, earlocks and frock coat, bears some resemblance to truth...
...foot road with no curbing. He'd compact it, roll it, lay two inches of black top and dedicate it to the town?and it would be their problem. Now the developer has to lay eight inches of stone with a three-inch binder coat of coarse asphalt and 1½ inches of topping and Belgian block curbing." The result of these and other requirements is that an $8,000 lot may cost another $8,000 to develop, v. $4,000 six years ago. Says Schoeck: "The cost had doubled before the house went...
...plunging into Pennsylvania's Lake Harmony carrying a life preserver to a "victim," or towing a boat along the shore, were re-enacting their breed's tasks of another century. Newfoundland fishermen used the dogs to gather nets spread in rich offshore fishing grounds. With a double coat similar to an otter's, the dogs withstood long exposure in the icy waters. Newfs are also strong swimmers whose webbed front paws arc out in a powerful breast stroke: no ministroke dog paddle for these canines. In the 19th century, it was rare to find a sailing ship...