Word: coats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first heard "fuck" just about ten years ago, when I was in the fourth grade, and it sounded so fine. I used it with gusto for at least three months before some sixth-grader finally explained what it meant. After that, my friends and I whispered it behind the coat rack at school and shouted it down at the river bank. We believed that the sixth-graders had made it up and that no girl had ever heard it, because it was for men only...
...figures, and a lesser actor than Bro Uttal would have made himself very dizzy in the attempt. It is no mean dramatic feat to slip from Pechorin's supercilious mastery of events to Lermontov's grotesque helplessness, but Uttal manages it as easily as taking off his coat...
Richard Nixon is silent. There are no compilations in his coat pocket because there has been no significant legislation. Nixon does not even have a slogan for his Administration. There is barely the beginning of a program. He has not yet brought peace, slowed inflation, cleansed the air and water, warded off piracy or uplifted the ghettos...
...never got her so much as an honorable mention on the best-dressed list, whereas a simple YSL (for Yves Saint Laurent) or a pair of Bs, back to back (for Bill Blass) spell instant class. No more fidgeting about in the theater, making sure the oldfashioned, inside-the-coat, Norman Norell label is draped visibly over the seat; no more calculated dropping of the $190 handbag, the better to reveal the Hermes plaque buried within. No longer the need to base chic upon a series of subtle clues-the interlocking bridle bit that makes the shoe a Gucci...
There could be no better choice. Tevye is the very image of an impoverished Jewish father who makes his ragged clothes seem every bit as fair as Joseph's coat. After turning Before Winter Comes into a movie, Topol should find Fiddler a vacation...