Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been dry four days in the last three months." As one judge shivered in a windbreaker and another strode the shore line in brogans, the pup, Aesirsson, bounded out of the water and sprayed everyone within five feet with a single, massive shake of his double-layered coat. It was a far cry from Madison Square Garden and the fine grooming -human and canine-of the Westminster show ring. "But Newfs weren't put on this earth just to look good," says Madsen. "They are born to swim, and water rescue is in their genes...
...King's Langley church has a brass plaque in memory of Ancestor John Carter, departed this world in 1588. Another Carter, also named John, made it to London and, in Dick Whittington fashion, became a prosperous wine merchant. As befitted a new gentleman, he applied for a coat of arms in 1612; Carter Lane, off Fleet Street, still bears his name...
Sulzberger borrowed that practice from his mother, who at 84 still fires an occasional witty missive to the paper under the name of some long-dead relative. Though she retired from the Times board in 1973, Iphigene Sulzberger remains a formidable force in the family. She designed its coat of arms, which features a duck-billed platypus-"an egg-laying mammal that suckles its young," explains Punch-and the motto NOTHING is IMPOSSIBLE. Not for her, anyway. She traveled to China several years ago with a granddaughter and playfully invited Chou En-lai to write for the Times; he declined...
...sense, Saint Laurent has designed the emperor's new clothes. His soft, flowing dresses, characterized by full sleeves and a loose obi caressing the hips, are adaptations of angular Chinese designs. Over these dresses or over satin pants are worn gargantuan wraps-a peplum coat sewn with real gold thread cloth, costing over $200 a meter, or a massive Genghis Khan jacket made of iridescent brocades and lined with fur. Saint Laurent set off his ensembles with high-heeled boots and a variety of hats, including pillbox and coolie styles...
Married. Brenda Vaccaro, 36, throaty-voiced star of Broadway (Cactus Flower), film (Midnight Cowboy's kinky "fur coat lady"; Golden Globe Award for Once Is Not Enough) and television; and William Spenser Bishop, 35, a Sun Valley, Idaho, attorney; she for the second time, he for the first; in Dallas...