Word: dapperly
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...Take for example Duncan, a 36-year-old factory sales rep who showed up in a dapper black pinstripe suit ("not Armani - it was made in Hong Kong") while most around him were dressed in T-shirts and baggies. Wasn't he overdressed? No, he said, he'd worn the suit to prove that one couldn't judge a book by its cover. You could put a man who looked like "corporate America" in the middle of nowhere and he'd survive...
...Beatrice Street Y, troupes compete for the prize of being the finest entertainers. In dapper suits, ties and shiny shoes, they parade before the judges. Before launching into song, groups take turns lining up to face the crowd, marching in place to set the rhythms and humming their melodies. With coyly lifted pants legs, they beat time with their feet, followed by a waist-high kick. Their coiled restraint hints at martial Zulu moves. Much in evidence to an American observer are the familiar echoes of old Hollywood vaudeville movies and the African-American companies that toured South Africa more...
...says he has received requests to "help out" in this year's presidential race. Politicians, he says with disgust, "use you and then get rid of you." Mobster Ahn Sang Min says he, too, has been approached by politicians seeking to fix the December election. Ahn, more menacing than dapper in olive sports jacket, black turtleneck and white slip-ons, is best known for ordering three murders?the last one while in prison. (He says he's now counseling young people.) Gangstergate? "They can't touch the big gangsters," Ahn says, "they are too well connected to the political power...
...first day of the trial had all the trappings of a media circus. Dumas, dapper in a navy blue suit and leaning on a cane, was mobbed by photographers and had to be escorted into the courtroom by gendarmes. Deviers-Joncour, 53, arrived like a star at the Cannes Film Festival, dressed in a clinging black suit and smiling demurely at the shouting journalists. As she took a seat on one end of the bench, the male defendants clustered together at the other end, scrupulously avoiding eye contact with the woman who has described herself in a tell-all bestseller...
...doubt he had intended his press conference outside the Supreme Court to match the dignity of his dapper three-piece suit. But for at least the first five minutes, the Rev. Al Sharpton struggles to extricate himself from the excited high school kids who have discovered him on their way to field trips at the Court...