Word: overcoat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warming to remake a durable Overcoat? (See CINEMA...
...Overcoat. In Nikolai Gogol's short story, as in this brief and virtually flawless film from Russia, Akaky Akakievich is a hunched, squinty-eyed penpusher, ridiculed at his office, who all winter long must suffer the cold winds of St. Petersburg whipping through his gauze thin overcoat. Compelled to buy a new one at painful cost, he talks to it, sleeps with it, defends it against a threatening moth. Next day, miraculously, Akaky Akakievich and his overcoat create a sen sation at work. His former tormentors are now backslapping friends; he is even invited to a champagne party...
...exquisite in detail. Looking like a wistful hand-carved troll, Bykov is gently hilarious when he first ventures out to show off his coat, cautiously dodging snowflakes, and ineffably tragic later as he stumbles through the white night mourning his loss at every window. Everything is right with The Overcoat, except that its literal old-fashioned excellence may seem so familiar that moviegoers will mistake it for a revival. Earlier film versions of Gogol's story include The Last Laugh, a German silent classic starring Emil Jannings, and The Bespoke Overcoat, British Director Jack Clayton's Oscar-winning...
...Lady Bird was North Carolina's Democratic Senator Everett Jordan, an old friend. Lyndon was whisked to a private office off the Rotunda, where he inserted his contact lenses. Then he walked to the platform. The temperature was 38°,* but neither Johnson nor Humphrey wore an overcoat...
...Pocket. Another method for transfer was used when Wennerström attended diplomatic receptions at the Soviet embassy: "One arrives wearing an overcoat. The coat is hung on a numbered hanger far in the rear. Remembering the number, you enter the reception room, acting normally. When you meet your contact, you must greet him as usual and occasion to tell him the number. You separate, and the contact goes to the coat hangers and gets the material in the pockets." Wennerström liked to use hangers...