Word: flannell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anthony Giardina's Men with Debts (Knopf; 266 pages; $13.95), the terrain suits the decade. This story of lower-middle-class yearnings and mid-life crisis has the feeling of - and straddles the sociological distance between - Marty and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. The ground traversed contains the grit of auto biography; Giardina grew up in Waltham, Mass., the setting of the novel. Even the reticence of his characters may reflect home truths: Henna's officemates have Italian surnames, but they scarcely discuss ethnicity. In time with their times, they share his fervor for feeling American...
...Libber automatically authenticate their convictions? And, aside from the shock value, what was really so meaningful during the sixties about hippies wearing United States flags on their bottoms? The professional anti-Establishmentarian Abbie Hoffman--who did precisely that--held as archaic a view of women, for example, as any flannel suited corporate redneck...
...also seek Thomson's advice. She tells of one recent client, a Harvard Law School student who was about to buy a gray flannel suit for his interviews...
When Reddog (1737 Mass. Ave.) opened 11 years ago, customers came in search of used denims, patchwork skirts, and flannel shirts. "We don't even carry them now," says owner Cindy Crosby...
...best way to turn lead into gold. Nowadays they call themselves scroungers and arrive for the weekly salvage ritual in white pickup trucks, wearing clothes suitable for labor in a wood lot. Many of them also wear Los Alamos National Laboratory security badges on their down vests and flannel shirts. Their reflexive tendency on being introduced, to reveal whether or not they have a Ph.D., hints that this is not just another junkyard...