Word: flannelled
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...group groans loudly in disgust at predictable tropes like The Freshman, who has highlighted the entire sourcebook (with annotations!); The Jaded Thesis-Writing Senior, usually hailing from Social Studies or Hist and Lit, who stumbles in at 17 minutes past the hour (if at all) draped in flannel pajamas with artfully styled bed-head hair; and of course The Pass/Fail Dilettante, who uses his thick-as-a-doorstop textbook as a primitive form of camouflage, working under the assumption that if he can’t see the TF, the TF probably can?...
...there may be another, more sensitive reason that Edwards is restraining himself. The real case against Kerry is a matter of character, not substance. Edwards hinted at it with his "longest answer" line: not only does Kerry have a flannel-mouthed inability to utter a simple sentence, but his orotundities also serve to reinforce the notion that the Senator from Massachusetts is a patrician stiff, too smug to speak in a manner decipherable by ordinary Americans. In fairness, John Kerry has been as sick as a dog these past few weeks and duller than he might ordinarily be--but there...
DIED. JOHN STEPHEN, 69, Glasgow-born clothing designer known as "the King of Carnaby Street" in Swinging '60s London; in London. His hip-hugging pants and velvet jackets challenged the postwar uniform of white shirts and gray flannel suits and became the threads of choice for the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Who. Stephen--a classic dresser himself--opened his first Carnaby Street shop, at No. 5, in 1957, and by the mid-'60s, his mod designs were being sold across...
...bathe in the evening to chill out, so in the morning it's jump out of bed, put a warm flannel [washcloth] on my face, brush my teeth, moisturize, dress and leave. I'm one of those quick people, five to 10 minutes...
...degree of authority. Civility is the first cousin to order, deference, conformity. But sometime in the past 40 years, Western society decided that deferential, ordered and conformist societies cramped creativity and personal expression. We shudder at the 1950s, when men and women knew their place, when businessmen wore gray flannel suits, when white Anglo-Saxon Protestants dominated the membership of the power élite as if by right. Nowadays, we champion personal growth. We try to "keep it real." We celebrate diversity. We laugh at the narrow ties and clipped hair of postwar IBM and Ford Motor Co. whiz kids...