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...woman says I in the petulant monotone of the Total Shopper, her eyes two emerald-rimmed pinpoints inside a huge cloud of cherry fox. She is definitely post-mink. Her personality calls for skunk, or perhaps tree sloth (to match her elaborate false fingernails), but she settles on a coat with pelts worked in next year's pattern, a sort of scallop effect resembling a Queen Anne façade. In case she ever sets foot outdoors, she buys a coyote ski jacket. She seems sorry not to have spent more than $8,000. Her husband, waiting...
...area, their secret service badges pinned on conspicuously, so all can know they are members of the "Press Corps." The Secret Service men don't have much to do--hostility looks beyond the emotional range of most of those occupied with the turkey roll. So they talk about the coat check girl, or rather about her generous, black-sweatered bosom...
...when the buses were supposed to pull out of the parking lot, the ranks had grown. A middle-aged Foxboro matron in an orange pantsuit and a mink coat, an overweight stetsonned friend of the family, and 15 or 20 reports. And another three buses...
...remains a shadowy image, an unmeasured mix of guile, principle and erratic power. But Guerin's journal reveals the cunning, self-righteous man who rose to the nobility on the corpse of Paumier. "In the worst possible taste," notes Le Roy Ladurie, the unabashed judge chose as his coat of arms an uprooted apple tree - in French, a pommier...
...brick of a church. The lawyer glances left and crosses against the Don't Walk sign at 11th Avenue. Several blocks later he edges toward the curb when a girl's face whispers in an aerosol-voice from the stone shadows, "Loose joints, man, loose joints." He removes his coat even before he enters the theater through glass doors...