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...Pennypacker. To ensure that no college boy entices you to forget the love you share with your boyfriend, make sure to look absolutely unattractive at all times. Boys usually appreciate hygiene, so if you cease to bathe and never leave the room unless you are in your smelly flannel pajamas with a few strands of greasy hair hanging down one side of your face, you will probably fend off any attacks from those Harvard horn-balls...
Every four years the political press corps digs into closets, rummages through attics and basements, dragging out the industrial-strength parkas, the mukluks, the Gore-Tex vests and the flannel-lined chinos, as we prepare for winter in New Hampshire. Pause for a moment at that last phrase: "winter in New Hampshire." Unlike "April in Paris" or "autumn in New York" or "springtime in the Rockies," no one has ever written a song titled Winter in New Hampshire. Ever wonder...
...Kevin the Gun Guy" sits calmly on a stool attending to customers as they come and go. He has the smugness of some-one who always carries a firearm. Sure enough, when asked if he ever feels concerned for his safety among, his gun-toting clientele, he opens his flannel shirt to display the loaded semi-automatic nestled against...
...Sisco is a slightly suspect agent, Clooney is the cleanest-living, most personable criminal in cinematic history, the thief in the gray flannel suit, a gentleman and a robber. He steals because that's the way he was brought up, you understand, and it's implied that he only robs because the world treats him badly, or only if he knows a really bad guy with some really good loot. A real Robin Hood, Foley. He's a thief with lots of honor who falls hard once he meets a good woman, even after she shoots...
...while the class remained marked by the War--it was not only the largest but the oldest in history--seniors in the class of 1948 could give up their war-torn fatigues and opt for what author Sloan Wilson would later call "the gray flannel suit" (on sale at the Coop for $45 to $60 by April...