Word: cravate
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...Elegant, yes. Elegant to the point of being sinister. That's what I was aiming for. Hence the little cravat and those Japanese flip-flop shoes. To give him the sense that it was all too good to be true...
...from P.G. Wodehouse country--especially those American fairy tales of his where the hero can hardly take a tumble without landing in a pot of gold, and the distance separating the egghead from the bonehead is minimal. Equipped with a book of maxims, or a new cravat, the Wodehouse hero--like Finch--is ready for anything...
WORST TIE. Ronald Reagan's top-half-red, bottom-half-blue cravat...
...Anglican minister. At one of the A.N.C.'s modest houses scattered throughout the Zambian capital of Lusaka, Tambo discussed his group's aims and methods with TIME Senior Editor George M. Taber and Correspondents Bruce Nelan and James Wilde. Dressed nattily in a beige safari suit with a paisley cravat tucked around his neck, the A.N.C. president tugged thoughtfully on wispy chin whiskers as he spoke. Excerpts...
...performance is scripted (very scripted, actually). It is also rehearsed (very rehearsed, actually), down to the last flamboyant gesture. He appears in an up-turned collar, flowing pink cravat and a suit of shimmering green. His hair is a delicate tint of mauve and he holds theatrical court from a cluster of antique-looking furniture. Subjects covered range from the excesses of Eva Peron to the finer, eccentric points of domestic science ("never sweep the place where you live, because after the first four years the dust doesn't get any worse...