Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whose neck is bitten by the Roman collar, I can agree with those who sing Blest Be the Tie that Binds...
...breakin, Mendell, who according to one investigator had been "running from pillar to post" in an attempt to hide from Big Tuna's wrath, disappeared. His body turned up six weeks later in the trunk of an Oldsmobile on Chicago's South Side. His arms had been bound, his neck slashed and a rope tied next to the wound to slow the flow of blood. Explained one investigator: "They forced him to watch himself bleed to death...
Looping around the neck like a reiterated threat of the garrote, a necktie can serve to restrain and discipline. That, at least, is the theory behind having little boys in private schools wear them; it doesn't always work. Neckties also represent a gesture of respect. A lawyer always advises his client to appear in court wearing a coat and tie. It shows that you have the deference to make yourself uncomfortable. Several years ago, a Florida judge cited a lawyer for contempt of court when the lawyer showed up wearing a gold medallion around his neck instead...
...even if one admires the look, he must wonder why they need to be uncomfortable. To be neat, the tie requires a shirt buttoned snugly at the Adam's apple. So, especially of course in summer, the body notices that it is airlessly bound at waist, wrists and neck. Food for the stomach and air for the lungs must pass down this strait constricted to appease teachers, bosses and headwaiters...
...somehow trivializing the wearer. For years Filipino men have managed to be both elegant and comfortable in the barong tagalog, the embroidered shirt that is a kind of national costume. The caftan might not pass as suitable business attire, and the clergyman's Roman collar can bite the neck. But among the tunics, togas, jerkins, buff coats, cassocks, sweatshirts, turtlenecks and other garments that humans have experimented with down the long centuries, there must be some arrangement that will get a man past the maitre d'. A necktie cannot be the final answer. A man's clothes...