Word: neatness
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...have their jackets off, and even British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in a light summer dress, has a few beads of perspiration along her impeccable upper lip. The debate on economic and monetary affairs, supposedly the height of the summit, drones on. President Reagan starts amusing himself by doodling neat little pen portraits of imaginary figures-a nondescript man with a mustache, something that looks like a smiling Marlboro cowboy, and the head of a horse. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan passes a note to Secretary of State Alexander Haig: "We should be out swimming in that fountain." Haig scribbles back...
...there in case of emergency. Admits a top executive for a leading New York brokerage firm: "If you want the really honest truth, I have a gold card because of the status. I almost never use the credit line. I really like to have it because it looks neat...
...what most people see is someone who appears more than a little arrogant. His heard meticulously trimmed, he always looks neat. More often than not in a blazer, a tie, chinos or cords, and moccasins he is the consummate prep. To complete the arrange, he rarely wear sucks. Yes, I most certainly do wear socks," he says emphatically while chortling at the question. "When my feet get cold and when I'm is a business suit...
Save-More Car Rental. The Hangar Charcoal Steaks. Cheetah Nude Dancing. The Vault Self-Storage Warehouse. Rich's Place Package Goods and Cocktails. The signs flash by on this dreary four-lane strip. "Welcome to Wheeling-the village with feeling." Finally, painted in neat black-and-white script, a tastebud red alert: Le Français. The building looks like a suburban developer's vision of a French country inn, and the visitor pauses for a moment to savor the incongruity. Wheeling, Ill. (pop. 23,089), is a beer-and-pretzels kind of town with a sizable blue...
Such occasions pass, marked only by photographs. Some of Paik's pieces were more permanent, like a television set with the screen removed and a candle burning in the empty cabinet-a neat comment on the votive, shrinelike role played by TV in the home-or a closed-loop setup titled TV Buddha, in which a stone effigy of the Buddha sits with a camera pointed at it, ceaselessly contemplating its own immobile image in a small monitor...