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...Washingtonians ... had never seen anything quite like the week of antiwar guerrilla theater staged by Vietnam veterans ... The sponsors called it Operation Dewey Canyon III ... in mocking echo of official U.S. military jargon. They numbered as many as 1,500 veterans ... Some were missing an arm or a leg; some got about in wheelchairs ... Few incidents ... enraged the Vietnam Veterans Against the War as much as did the rumor that President Nixon had said that only 30% of their number were really Vietnam veterans. Though the White House was quick to deny any such statement, the angry veterans collected proof...
When it comes to men's suits, says influential New York City tailor Thom Browne, the skinny leg is in. Designers like Dolce & Gabbana and Ralph Lauren are waving goodbye to the slouchy, oversized look; it's hello to pencil-thin suits straight out of a 1960s movie. Even at mass-market retail stores like H&M and Gap, the new style for spring is narrow jeans cropped at the ankle. The move toward the straight and narrow was launched in large part by Browne, 38, who favors what he calls the Congressman suit - the lean look favored by John...
...events it examines are real, but MacDonald uses re-enactments of the story’s events to supplement a narrated account from the disaster’s survivors. The nut of their crisis: halfway through a climb, one of the two team members falls and breaks several leg bones. The other climber decides to lower his injured partner to safety, 300 feet of rope at a time, until he accidentally lowers him over a precipice. Knowing that soon both of them would tumble to their deaths, he makes a critical decision and cuts the cord...
...want my leg-of-mutton sleeves, and in addition to those I want my cutie chamois booties with the leopard-skin bows. I want by pink-brocaded bodice with the fluffy fuzzy ruffs And my gorgeous bright blue bloomers with the monkey-feather cuffs...
...pain was still there, and I still felt it shooting through my leg in every step, but I had to jump,” Andrew-Jaja said. “I did not want any what if’s haunting me down the road...