Word: fedoras
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...must approve the committee’s choice before a president can be appointed. In recent days, the search committee had been most seriously considering Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gilpin Faust for the post. When asked if he had met with Faust on Sunday, Houghton—a brown fedora on his head—responded that he had talked to many people over the weekend. “I can’t remember who I met with last night,” he said with a grin. Corporation Fellow Robert D. Reischauer...
...most objective standards, was doing pretty well. I lived in an old building in majestic Harlem, with a lovely son and partner, and made a show of wearing a suit and fedora to a job that merely requested jeans and a collar. I had a joint bank account and dental insurance. Yet, on any given day, if you'd asked me about my greatest accomplishment, it invariably began with my second life-the one in which I was a seven-foot blue elf whose hobbies included firing crossbows, trapping wild boars and reenacting the video for Michael Jackson's "Billie...
He’s almost exactly like me: same height, a little hunched over, a little pale, and immaculately fashionable. Golden tresses flow out of a tweed fedora...
...adorable set from an adorable man who comes from an adorable country, has an adorable accent, and plays with a band of six of the hottest women this reviewer has ever fantasized about. The performer in question was, of course, Sweden’s Jens Lekman.Wearing a silly fedora and telling the stories-behind-the-songs in order to make everyone feel welcome (a particular favorite was a tale about being roped into pretending to be the boyfriend of a lesbian in order to impress her parents), Jens and his band of Swedish beauties rollicked through plenty of delightful little...
...comic book, with a story called "Me, the Verdict," an acute burlesque of Spillane tropes. The highest compliment was paid by Fred Astaire, who in 1953's The Band Wagon devoted an entire ballet, called "The Girl Hunt," to the Hammer mystique. (A decade later, Spillane tipped his fedora to Astaire by titling a Hammer novel The Girl Hunters...