Word: coats
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...full house to the Wilbur Theatre; unfortunately, it brought a quarter of them 15 minutes late. In the middle of Laertes’ first scene with Ophelia, the herd of Americans came traipsing down the aisles like so many elephants, linked trunk to tail. After the requisite bit of coat rustling, umbrella shaking, coughs, sniffs and general settling into seats, the performance was allowed to continue...
...point, they agreed to let us meet with the dean of students, someone who had nothing to do with labor policies. Since that time, dozens of demonstrations and thousands of signatures have made the administration change its approach. In the face of mounting community opposition, administrators have worked to coat themselves in the syrupy lacquer of feigned responsiveness. But after every meeting, they’ve gone back to business as usual: outsourcing jobs to cut benefits, reclassifying workers to cut wages and busting unions to eliminate any recourse Harvard workers have against assaults on their livelihoods and dignity...
...meat-eating Republican who wears a coat and tie everywhere, including at the breakfast table, George Goodheart wouldn't seem to have a New Age bone in his body--until you get him talking about bones and muscles...
...years, bringing with her representatives of those habits and institutions that have made the British so great: a British Lord Chamberlain, a captain of the First Life Guards, a Royal Navy captain (who has little toy ships he carries in the pockets of his sailor’s long coat), and a Company Provider, otherwise known as the man concerned with money...
...guillotine, so the families would be denied a vivid satisfaction; instead they would see someone in a white coat bend over an I.V. tube run into the strapped-down killer's arm, and - they would infer, because they could not see it - delicately squirt lethal fluid from a hypodermic into the tube, like a nurse giving a sedative. And they would watch McVeigh go to sleep. This is "closure...