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...Council at a press conference compared Brock's extraordinarily low 1975 tax payment to that of a steel worker, a railroad engineer and an auto worker-who earn far less. Brock claimed that business expenses, charitable contributions and operating costs for a blind trust reduced his tax liability. Lapel buttons with the claim "I paid more taxes than Brock" began to sprout all over, and Brock remained on the defensive...
...think we've played well enough to win some games," Ford said Thursday. One can almost imagine the faint outline of a tarnished "WIN" button pressing against the lapel of his sport coat from an inside pocket...
...delegates are excited: waving flags, crying "hear! hear!", reveling in a pale imitation of the pageantry of a real national convention. 'Register Kissinger not Firearms,' 'The Rock Owns a Piece of Me,' and 'Don't Re-elect Anybody' bumper stickers; dead-babies' ingarbage-cans armbands; plastic gold noose lapel pins (for 'Public Officials convicted for treason'); pistol tie clips...
Knowing When You Have Reached The Top Upon a chosen element day, exercise a sartorial master-stroke of impeccable taste. Don a neatly laundered and sharply pressed pair of flannel cricket trousers, white buckskin shoes, white moleskin hacking jacket with a red carnation in the lapel, silk shirt and purple tweed tie. In your summery stylish regalia, and really looking nice poise on the sixth floor room balcony of a goodish old fashioned downtown hotel. When everyone is suitably assembled to watch you jump off to break your head, commence peeing. If no one tries to rush the hell...
...Language series is part of a proud trompe l'oeil T shirt tradition that is already months old. Some samples, now on the streets and in fashionable discothèques: a shirt that looks like a tuxedo jacket, shirt and bow tie -complete with a flower in the lapel; another that is indistinguishable from a sailor suit; and one, owned by San Francisco TV Reporter Bill Schechner, that is apparently a green sports shirt and blue tie looped in a Windsor knot. "I wear it on the air when it's too hot to wear anything else," boasts...