Word: jacketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...villages, where local administrators have been beheaded by the Reds, but in Saigon. A few days before McNamara's arrival, police surprised two Viet Cong mining a bridge over which his car was to pass. Driving through the streets of the capital, McNamara was cloaked in a bulletproof jacket. It was, in a way, the most revealing aspect of his visit; never before had McNamara found it necessary to adopt such rigid measures in Saigon...
...achieve this "novel of agonizing suspense," says the jacket blurb, Author Westheimer "drew heavily" on his own years as a P.W. in both Italy and Germany, but the only sign of his insight is that all his characters can say "prisoner-of-war camp" in Italian. The cast, as in all prison-camp stories, includes a good-guy priest, a psychopath, a bragging coward and a German spy, and Westheimer makes a bad job worse by being one of those fantastically clever writers who tell everyone's age by saying how old his face looks younger than. Despite such...
...film did us a lot of harm." The Rockers do not conceal their disdain for the Mods. "The money we spend tripping around and going places, they spend on clothes," sniffs one. For a Rocker, clothes are strictly functional. "People don't seem to realize that a leather jacket is the warmest thing to wear when riding...
...contrast, would rather go naked than don a leather jacket. Mod styles tend toward pastels and velvet, collarless polo shirts with horizontal stripes, and ankle-high "plimsoles" (sneakers) with thick white rubber soles. Mod girls wear no jewelry and no makeup save brown eye shadow and false eyelashes. Hairdos are short; flat shoes are In. Skirts vary from ankle-length to midcalf...
Singing a laryngeal ragout, Franchi booms out Shenandoah, Arrivederci Roma, an aria from Tosca, a flamenco number, even Chicago in Italian. He is a tall, thin fellow who begins stiffly but soon has his tie and jacket off and his shirt unbuttoned. His big tenor has baritone depth. It lacks the bel canto sweetness of high operatic stature, but it has a lot of impressive thunder. "Most people have never been in an opera house," says Sergio's musical director...