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...Quentin Crisp, sartorially eccentric English author, on the distinction between fashion and style: "Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know...
...Adolfo, Bill Blass and Galanos, whom she admires especially for what she calls their "simple, classical lines." She has a penchant for red, but almost all her clothes are colorful. In Adolfo's view, she projects "a chic, affluent way of looking, extremely sophisticated." Blass calls her style "crisp and fresh." According to Gale Hayman, co-owner of Giorgio's, a shop on Rodeo Drive where Mrs. Reagan has bought some of her clothes, she will be "very proper, very dignified, like Pat Nixon. But she will go a few steps further, closer to Jackie Onassis...
...sportscaster rated a review in the Davenport Democrat and Leader. He narrated-for $5-Iowa's loss to Minnesota, 21-6, before some 10,000 spectators who had paid $2 to $3 and got rained on. Gushed the critic of Reagan's play-by-play: "His crisp account of the muddy struggle sounded like a carefully written story of the gridiron goings-on, and his quick tongue seemed to be as fast as the plays." As usual, Reagan had prepared thoroughly by practicing mock commentary at Dixon High scrimmages...
Next day, Jimmy and Rosalynn flew north for one of their last weekends at Camp David. The following morning brought perfect, crisp weather for their two-year-old passion, cross-country skiing, a sport in which the President has become quite proficient...
...first eight minutes of the opening game, the Crimson looked up to the challenge. Crisp passing and some solid forechecking in the offensive zone, plus spirited defensive play, allowed the Crimson to stay even, if not dominate...