Word: flannel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hollow, hollow as Japanese lanterns, hollow as tennis balls, hollow as black parachutes drifting through the night sky. We are money and beauty, expensive costumes, argyle sweaters and flannel knickers. We lust for the naked girl in the private railway car that streaks by on a summer night. We sniff at the air, spicing our senses with the scent of golden pine needles that drop like errant arrows to the forest floor...
...arrived at the Army base, which is now surrounded by 11-ft. chain-link fences topped by 2-ft. coils of razor-sharp barbed wire, they were told that each would soon receive winter clothing from the Red Cross: a quilted jacket, leather shoes with crepe soles, two plaid flannel shirts, two pairs of thick jeans, gloves and a brightly colored stocking cap. They also found the authorities determined to maintain tight discipline with the help of 1,000 Army guards and 350 civilian officers, most of them from the U.S. Park Police. "El Bulevar," the black market where Cubans...
Ormandy is the last of that school, at least in the U.S. Hard working and efficient, attentive to his board of directors, suave but wary with the press, he has been called a "gray-flannel-suit conductor." Yet his devotion to the orchestra's excellence is unquestioned. In his programming he has been criticized for catering, as one critic put it privately, to "the dowager taste, to the Main Line bluebloods who put up the dough." He himself concedes: "I should have done more new works-the late Stravinsky, Copland, the whole contemporary group." His predecessor, the flamboyant Leopold...
BURROUGHS, like most writers who came up in the 50s, reacts to the grey-flannel uniformity and dehumanizing technology of the era, as personified in Dr. Benway in Naked Lunch. But he is no Miniver Cheevy. "In many ways of course everyone knows that life was more pleasant a hundred years ago. On the other hand, of course, most of us would be dead," he said in his WASP/aristocrat groan. "I sometimes take a census of the number of my friends who would be dead if they had lived a hundred years ago and it's almost a hundred...
...dying down. Feather Falls is a company town, wholly owned by the Louisiana-Pacific Corp. Its 800 citizens live in white-trimmed, barn-red houses, paying an average $125-a-month rent. They did not know what to make of an antiwar activist like Rose who dressed in red flannel shirts, green silk dotted ties and baggy, unpressed jeans. His walrus mustache, gold-rimmed glasses and long brown hair brought to mind not young Dr. Kildare but Billy Shears from the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper...