Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night made for jazz. The Mama Kin Playhouse (owned by Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, of all people) presented Ravi Coltrane. As the son of John Coltrane, the legendary jazz musician, Ravi is making the saxophone a treasured trademark of the Coltrane family and also creating his own style. Dapper suits and casual jeans, cocktail dresses and T-shirts all stepped into the dim club with a quiet sophistication...
...tell you something," says Mitchell, a dapper, white-haired Southern gentleman of 74. "Hispanic and Anglo children alike are excited about what's happening, and a lot of the rest of us are too. But I'm being selfish about it. I know these children are here to stay--as butchers, Realtors, car salesman, physicians--and Dalton is a richer place because...
...town where lawyers are pressed from cookie cutters, stuffed into gray suits and sent off to work in colorless law factories, Jacob Stein is a rarity--he's a character. He takes midday literary breaks in his antiques-strewn office to leaf through 18th-century British classics. He wears dapper chalk-striped suits and two-toned shoes to court. And he has been known to send the detachable collars and cuffs from his hand-tailored shirts to London for laundering...
...ladies could be called tramps at a moment's notice. Or to be Sammy Davis Jr., who had to endure Sinatra's cornball racial jesting at its worst. But for Sinatra, the sumptuous early '60s were a Golden Age, when gambling was still glamorous, smoking had charm and "dapper" was something you might actually want to be called. Naturally he was infatuated with J.F.K., just 18 months younger, an Irishman born to the Ivy League credentials and Establishment credibility that Sinatra never had. In return, Kennedy was fascinated by Sinatra's bachelor-in-paradise ways, cultural power and abundant women...
...camera had the run of the city; it peered and pried everywhere, and its somewhat watery gaze was often unflattering. Good-looking women turned into witches and dapper men became unshaven bums. Under TV's merciless, close-up stare, the demagogues and players-to-the-gallery did not always succeed in looking like statesmen. Besides exposing the politicians' worst facial expressions, the camera caught occasional telltale traces of boredom, insincerity and petulance...