Word: cutaways
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...Visitor from Forest Hills, a zany wedding tableau in which an irate father, pressed past mind and pocketbook, cannot budge his distraught daughter out of a locked bathroom to the altar. He threatens, he cajoles, he implores. He nearly breaks his arm ramming the door. He rends his cutaway till it looks like sackcloth and he looks like ashes. Scott's countenance of epic frustration is phenomenally funny: a middle-aged Lear confronted with a thankless offspring. The evening's master treat, a carnival of sight-and-sound gags, this skit shows how Simon and Nichols can take...
Married. Nancy Quirk Williams Jr., 23, eldest daughter of former Michigan Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams; and Theodore Ketterer III, 23, salesman for IBM; in an Episcopal ceremony in Detroit. Soapy's regalia: striped trousers and cutaway morning coat, embellished with his familiar green polka...
...Thais are reluctant to permit structures to soar higher than their ubiquitous Buddhist temples. When Johnson choppered into the Royal Plaza near Chitra-lada Palace for his audience with King Bhumibol Adulyadej and the lovely Queen Sirikit, he was allowed to wear a business suit instead of the traditional cutaway...
...been summoned to Kinshasa (formerly Leopoldville) to receive the Order of the Leopard, an award Mobutu invented for "exceptional services" and had already passed out to his Cabinet. For last week's ceremony, the governors showed up in Kinshasa's Place Braconnier in a sartorial array of cutaway coats, tails, business suits and even one black corduroy jacket. When they were properly in line, Mobutu marched stiffly down the ranks, planting a medal on each chest and a noisy kiss on each neck. Then he climbed into his black Ford convertible and was driven off, standing at attention...
Johnson's decision took Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey by surprise. Assuming that Johnson would wear the traditional cutaway, Hubert had already dropped by to see Washington Tailor Sam Scogna and get measured for the full-dress attire. Sam, forgetting that only spools rush in where tailors fear to thread, told everybody that the Vice President-elect was his customer for an inaugural outfit. Next thing Humphrey heard was a report that Tailor Sam was making a $175 cutaway for him. Making? cried Humphrey. I'm only renting...