Word: gown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Patti Davis, she has won small roles in the likes of TV's Love Boat. Though she took no part in her father's campaign ("I'm antipolitical"), she is now reconciled with her parents: she appeared at Reagan's nomination, has bought a Dior gown for the Inauguration, and even returned to the family's Pacific Palisades home for a while before finding her own beachside apartment a few miles away. The election, admits Patti, "has done wonders for my career." TV and film offers are turning up, she has signed with the high...
...Demanding that they see you." He asks, "What're they here for? Is it the Third World Center? Is it a tenure dispute? Is it about those kiosks? Or maybe the shuttle bus route? Could it be the latest divestiture demand? Is it the Radcliffe Forum? our cap-and-gown stand? Whatever it is they're asking, whatever it is they want You tell them that I'll grant it--unless, that is, I can't. I've had the strangest dream last night, a dream of dire import; Ronald Reagan had become Santa Claus...
...striped-pants morning suit for him. No Priscilla of Boston gown for her. No Rose Garden reception for either of them. Just a short hop to Manhattan's supreme court for a civil ceremony, he in jeans and red sweatshirt, she in scarlet cowboy boots, black sweater and slacks. Then it was back to the barre for Ronald P. Reagan, 22, a Joffrey II dancer, who has been rooming for more than a year with Doria Palmieri, 29, a California-born literary researcher. The impromptu wedding, attended by one friend and a Secret Service agent, "seemed like the right...
...pages, the amount of unnecessary information he includes is often astounding. In addition to narrating events in Hawthorne's life, for example, Mellow frequently describes exactly what Hawthorne wore. During cold winter mornings in Lenox, Mellow reveals, the author sat in his study wearing an old purple dressing gown made by his wife Sophia. Hawthorne's wardrobe also had its formal side, we discover, although at one time he refused to wear "the white muslin cravat then in fashion." Mellow provides similarly telling details about Hawthorne's diet--at one dinner he ate cutlets, fricassees, ragouts, tongue and chickenpies...
...Cable could provide a general interface between town and gown at many levels," the report states, suggesting the creation of a joint task force with representatives from the city and the universities. "Their theater and musical productions, film series, computer services and data bases might all be more generally available," the report suggests...