Word: fashioners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DRINK. I concurred in the general consensus and elbowed and gouged my way up to the bar in vintage Ed King, clip-'em-on-the-sweep fashion. The bar-tender, a smallish man unaccustomed to such mass displays of joviality, informed me that Scotch and soda was going for $1.90 that night. Ed King, I realized, would run a frugal administration, having already cut back on essential social services. I settled for ginger...
...Bless me father, for I have sinned..." I triumphed over the impulse, and opened the conversation in non-confessional fashion. Father Bernard McLaughlin, pastor of the Catholic chapel at Logan Airport, smiled and instantly became a helpful fellow. Most of the people at the rally, he confided, were airport people, friends of King from the days when he was director of the Massachusetts Port Authority and a familiar face at Logan. It was a good night for all of them, he concluded, showing a good deal more assurance in the outcome, and a lot less amazement at its denouement, than...
...effort in this direction (Muc Wa contains a cemetery for the French troops who died trying to defend it, with an inscription about the Spartans at Thermopylae that provides the picture's title; there is a one-eyed Viet Cong sniper who appears and disappears in a ghostly fashion), but they are never really developed...
...Nowadays, everyone thinks of himself as an athlete in some fashion," Reardon says. But he notes that the major growth in the number of athletes at Harvard has come--especially during the last year--because of the explosion in women's athletics...
...jeans, the dark, stiff kind that James Dean wore, are big sellers right now, as are the sexy, $32-and-up numbers put out by big-name designers. The blue-textile phenomenon may well have passed its sales prime, says Norman Karr, executive director of the Men's Fashion Association, "but there are many good years left...