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...worst a coat upon a coat-hanger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene a Tale of Five Warm Coats | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

...similar conscience-stirring hallucination seized stockbrokers Larry Doyle and Terry Scott, management consultant Sheena Laughlin, computer scientist Parviz Kermani and record-company executive Bill Shaughnessy as they went through their closets. Hanging there were winter coats they had not worn in years. Doyle's gray-and-black herringbone was of an elegant European design that he now considers a bit flashy. The vibrant blue of Laughlin's five-year- old down coat had begun to fade. Kermani's dark blue raincoat had become too tight. Shaughnessy thought the brown trench with the bright red lining was starting to look like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene a Tale of Five Warm Coats | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

Across the hall by the elevator landing, the acting police chief, Lt. Lawrence J. Murphy, held court. Manager of Operations for Security Robert J. Dowling donned a scowl and a blood-red sport coat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 12/17/1993 | See Source »

Police said the suspect was carrying a replica gun in his coat pocket but could only speculate as to whether he was intending to rob the same bank--the Mt. Auburn Street branch of Wainwright Bank and Trust Co.--for a second time...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Thief Nabbed In Harvard Sq. | 12/16/1993 | See Source »

...room for anything but straight shooting, whether the subject is sex, using the bathroom or what's playing on the telly. The mother, Kay (Ruth McCabe), is patient, taciturn and sweet. When the question of contraception arises, she recalls the best she ever knew: the gift of a coat from her husband Dessie (Colm Meaney), which prevented him from taking her out in the fields where it might get dirty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chaos of Life, Irish-Style | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

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