Word: garments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skits pasted together, each starring Carol Channing and Sid Caesar. In one, Caesar is a house painter and Channing a monied, molting society lovebird who is having the apartment redone for her cynical young lover. Guess who gets to use the bed? In another skit Caesar is a gamy garment-district mogul who sweeps Channing off the dance floor at Roseland. Since both are in their 70s, desire exceeds potency, and the two compromise on an antiquarian verbal waltz...
...bodies at the scene contradicted earlier testimony by saying that he had turned Mrs. MacDonald's corpse completely over. Since MacDonald claimed that he had tried to cover Colette's wounds with his torn pajamas, the movement of her body seemed a plausible explanation of why his garment was found beneath her. As for the upright flowerpot, some investigators admitted that they had seen it on its side when they first entered...
...Your article strikes a Scot as simply frightening. Why don't you Americans stick to what you do superlatively well? The high-quality superfinish garment, the first-class typewriter, the top computer equipment-all the reliable merchandise that the man in the street in Europe knows he can buy with confidence...
...real suspense. In fact, the book is like the paperback Lise carries around with her, which she describes as "a whydunnit in q-sharp major." The reader knows that Lise is crazy from the moment she stalks out of a shop because the salesgirl has told her the preposterous garment she wants is "stain-resistant." The fact that she will be stabbed to death is announced portentously on page...
...Whenever I had the audacity to mention drama to anyone, they thought I was nuts. They'd say 'Why don't you do something practical?' " College was out. Scholarships were unheard of in Kemp's world; his parents were separated and his mother, a garment worker, earned hardly enough to feed the family. At 15, he dropped out of high school-bored, seeing no future, Kemp hustled numbers and ran dope. Later, he enlisted in the Air Force and became a communications specialist. When he got out, the personnel offices at the New York airports...