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...management retrenches, closing the club at two now instead of four a.m. The lavish vases of fresh-cut flowers--crisp white carnations and crowds of blue irises the color of twilight--are gone. The bare walls have emerged from behind them, triumphant. Heavy and silent, they tolerate the denim-bedecked transient dancers and ache from their loud stream of music. The smaller inanimate objects--little glass tables, sculptured plastic chairs, ashtrays that bear no name--huddle in groups, almost afraid: their conspiracy against the walls is over. 15 Lansdowne Street is waiting to become a warehouse again...
HAMILTON JORDAN, 30, National Campaign Director. A plump native of Albany, Ga., Jordan wears denim jackets and open-necked shirts. He affects a good-ol'-boy manner but is a coolly professional political operative. In 1966, he was youth coordinator of Carter's first, unsuccessful campaign for Governor, then managed his winning gubernatorial drive in 1970 and became his executive secretary. Jordan describes himself as a late-blooming progressive. A cousin founded Koinonia (Greek for fellowship or communion), a biracial farm in southwestern Georgia that deeply offended Ku Klux Klan members and other white racists in the 1940s...
Trudeau's dislikes are ambidextrous. Neither radicals nor reactionaries are safe from his artillery. Stuffed shirts of Oxford broadcloth or frayed denim receive the same impudent deflation. Yet Trudeau attacks with such gentle humor that even hard-nosed presidential aides can occasionally be heard chuckling over the daily White House news summary-when it includes a Doonesbury. "It has replaced Peanuts as the first thing I read every morning," says Ron Nessen. Admits Snowbunny himself: "There are only three major vehicles to keep us informed as to what is going on in Washington-the electronic media, the print media...
...indulging long-suppressed urges for new clothing, notably sportswear, leisure suits and shirts. A big seller lately has been the "trashy look," seen mainly in women's blouses; made of semitransparent polyester and cotton, the cloth gets its name from its rough, unfinished look. Demand for blue denim for everything from jeans to auto-seat covers is running high, and corduroy is also moving briskly. Home-furnishings sales, which have been impeded by the slowdown in housing construction, are beginning to show some life, especially in sheets, towels and draperies. Industrial textiles, such as conveyor belts, air-conditioning filters...
Above are either T shirts or denim jackets, decorated with more tartan. Out in the audience, in Britain at least, are invariably several thousand girls dressed the same way. Says Manager Paton: "It's cheap, it's original, and any fan can dress like a Roller simply by sewing some strips of tartan on a shirt and cutting off the trouser leg at mid-calf." Right...