Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gogoliana abound in this mesmerizing catalogue of corruption by Konstantin Simis, a former Soviet trial lawyer. One reprise from Dead Souls takes place in the ancient town of Ruza, near Moscow. The manager of a construction outfit, in need of ready cash for his business's bribery fund, resorts to a common practice: putting nonexistent workers on the payroll and then collecting their salaries. Simis writes: "To ensure that his 'dead souls' really were dead, [the Ruza manager] went out to the municipal cemetery and meticulously copied down the names of dead people from the gravestones...
...with high test scores and a low opinion of exposing themselves to hostile fire. Nearly half of them were casualties of a battle in the Saar. The survivors are an antidote to the Dirty Dozen and their sordid spin-offs in film and fiction. The oldest members of the outfit are called Mother and Father; there is a no-obscenity rule, and the favorite pastime is not poker but a demonic version of bridge. The men also share their reading. As Knott, ever the illuminating ironist, puts it, "We rip books apart so we can read them together...
...certainly trying. Mingling with 400 friends and neighbors who gathered on his Illinois farm for a beer-and-bratwurst fund-raising picnic, he wore a blue denim jacket and red Funk Seeds cap. In that down-home outfit, it was almost possible to forget that former Senator Adlai Stevenson III, 51, is a patrician intellectual and an unarousing public presence. Nonetheless, the crowd gave him a rousing sendoff, erupting with whoops and whistles when the local Democratic chairman asked, "Is Ad going to win?" Candidate Stevenson, meanwhile, just smiled, looking more embarrassed than flattered by the hoopla...
...Without Her, is currently No. 89 on the charts. But there was still something missing, so his handlers suggested a take-it-off takeoff of the now famous Richard Avedon portrait of Natassia Kinski, 21, with a languorous python at her thigh. For Atkins, that meant posing in the outfit that he is best known for on-screen and lying cheek by jowl with a 6-ft.-long, 20-lb. female boa constrictor. The result is a gripping bit of publicity, although Freud might be puzzled about just what Atkins is really revealing...
...helped finance the Chiefs, a sputtering soccer outfit...