Word: corduroyed
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Robert Bronson, "the last great New England transcendentalist," is the ghost that got away. The author of Captain Hook's Gang, Sunday Mornings with Zarathustra and other poems, Bronson is something like a son of Ahab in corduroy pants. So long as he was in and out of psychiatric wards, so long as "his true sense of sight was anger," Bronson remained a darling of the Boston literati. But then-in 1953, to be exact -Bronson transcended: He found the One, the Oversoul, the Truth, the Great Zero that Emerson and all the earlier transcendentalists only dreamed of discovering...
...once knew a guy whose mother could really pick 'em," a middle-aged man in a brown corduroy jacket was telling his friend. "The old lady would go down to the stables before the races and pick the winner. She didn't know nothing about horses, and she was always right...
...visitor stays long enough to do some shopping, he will see evidence of inefficiency in the shoddiness of many types of goods. Blue jeans seem to be the only children's clothes that last any more. Corduroy clothes, which used to be bought for durability, just melt away. Sales clerks often seem to be uninformed or indifferent, though they are not yet as bad as waiters...
...your calf muscles. It is true, as they say in Dorchester, that "It's not the face you fuck," but the coiner of the phrase never took into account that bitch musk clings to one's clothes, and that male hounds are so blindly in love that they mistake corduroy for canine flesh...
Turning up Holyoke Street: the Andover Shop (men's clothing) is starting its sale next week. They have a very pretty salesgirl and a lot of wide-wale corduroy pants. Next door at Bobbi Baker (outfitters of Channel 4 movie reviewer Pat Collins), we asked the manager to have one of the salesgirls put on some of their sales items for a picture. "My God," she shrieked, "I've got so much on sale-she'd fall right through the floor. I'm a regular Filene's Basement," to name another good place for bargains, if you feel like traveling...