Word: jacketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan's Kuku shop, which opened last month especially to ride herd on the new four-footed fad. For $390, Kuku will part with a harebrained outfit consisting of rabbit hip-huggers in black-and-white checks, topped with a rabbit halter and black-and-white striped jacket. For slightly more, a girl can pick up a striking Indian-kid coat that is shaped like a sailor's pea jacket, or an imitation-cheetah walking suit made of calfskin...
...alone. Bergdorf Goodman has a zany "zebra" dress made from Italian lamb and Russian broadtail. The black broadtail stripes are individually cut and hand-sewn into the white lamb, all for $2,700. Pour l'après ski, Revillon has whipped up a horizontally stitched chinchilla jacket with matching chinchilla boots...
...these seats to avoid conflicts of interest. So anxious is he to get into space that last week he had no sooner finished a speaking engagement in Los Angeles than he jetted to Washington overnight to attend his first Comsat board meeting-still attired in his dinner jacket...
...until the story gets underway, Le Carre seems to feel an obligation to make up for in atmosphere what he cannot supply in action. Sometimes he succeeds. At its best, as in the opening paragraphs (reprinted on the dust jacket), Le Carre's style has an undeniable gloomy resonance...
...marches puddled on the courthouse lawn. They sang, joining arms and swaying in union. Some white boys nudged one another and giggled. A few faces stand out in my mind: an enormous Negro youth in a bluejean jacket, a tiny Negro minister, a pudgy white girl in a baggy dress...