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When was the last time you thrilled to the romantic escapades of Overcoat Junction? How can your life be complete without watching at least one episode of The People's Court Martial? How about the wild and wacky antics on Saturday Night Censored? A rifle butt in the head to anyone who doubts the unbridled creativity of Soviet...
Police were hunting "a darkhaired man aged 35-40 in a long dark overcoat" who apparently fled...
...open-necked shirt and tan overcoat, the silver-haired old soldier looked out of place among some 30 younger Viet Nam veterans dressed in battle fatigues as they marched through Texas last week in a tribute to their fallen comrades. Yet the vets snapped to attention when he joined their ranks. "It's a great feeling to be with the men again," said General William Westmoreland, 71, who commanded U.S. troops in Viet Nam from 1964 to 1968. "They have much to be proud of, and they're showing their pride...
...Event might have come from a pocket in Gogol's Overcoat. In a provincial village of czarist Russia, a portrait painter and his unfaithful wife fearfully await an ex-convict who once threatened them with violence. Again an ambiguous reality intrudes: a character remembers being told, "I and my brother were played by one and the same actor, only in the part of my brother he was good, and in mine he was bad." In a central scene the principals remain themselves, but some of the supporting cast become painted representations...
...falling snow dusted his overcoat lapels, Tom Brokaw stood in windswept Geneva's -10 degrees C chill to anchor NBC's evening newscast. There was no clear journalistic reason for Brokaw's uncomfortable vigil. He was not interviewing anyone or waiting for a nearby event to happen. The floodlit tower clock behind him informed viewers only that he was not appearing live but on tape. Brokaw was, however, providing visible proof that NBC, like its network rivals, had spent a reported $500,000 to enable its analysts, dozens of support staffers and tons of equipment to hover near...