Word: fur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almost every day for five weeks, a group of Armenians had huddled in the winter chill in front of Moscow's six-story Supreme Court building, slapping their arms against the sides of their brown fur coats to keep warm. Their breath burst forth in clouds of pale steam as they talked quietly to one another, discussing the fate of those on trial...
...stands were teeming with fans clad in fur coats, fuzzy mittens, Crimson scarves and Bulldog sweatshirts as far as the eye could see. And in Section 41, that's about all the eye could see. This fine section was reserved exclusively for freshmen and alumni who didn't contribute enough money...
...left the field with frostbite and fans left the stands kind of tipsy. Lambeau Field didn't hold a candle to Yale Bowl that day. For another thing, it's Harvard and Yale alumni. They don't wear parkas and they don't drink beer. For them it's fur and whiskey sours...
...recalls herself as "a psychologically abandoned child." Until she was six, she and her younger sister were raised mostly by aunts, in the New York area. Her parents, Polish Jews who came to the U.S. while young, spent most of their time in China, where her father was a fur trader. After his death there from tuberculosis, her mother returned to the U.S. and remarried. (Sontag uses her stepfather's last name.) In time, the new family ended up living in Canoga Park, near Los Angeles, though it would be truer to say that Sontag lived in books. The most...
...November 1984, Blazakis said, Galanos asked the First Lady to select one of two fur jackets to go with the second Inaugural gown he was designing for her. One was a $10,500 white mink, the other a $35,000 Russian sable. According to Blazakis, Nancy had wanted to keep both. Galanos persuaded her that the American mink would be more appropriate and did not give her the sable. Mrs. Reagan, however, did not wear the mink to the Inaugural. Crispen last week said that Mrs. Reagan recalls borrowing the jacket and wearing it once, then returning it sometime later...