Word: overcoats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to the Lamont circulation supervisor, the suspect is a white male, about 5'9," who is in his mid-twenties. He has short, dark brown hair and was wearing a brown tweed overcoat over a suit...
...long black leather overcoat looked around nervously as he passed by, worried that a hair might be out of place. Guys stood in the bathroom with their cream-colored, curtain-fabric jackets, satin shirts, blow-dried hair, staring at themselves in the mirror like junior high kids prepping for the final plunge onto the dance floor. But these guys were in their fifties...
Chad Kister comes back from a morning of canvassing. He wears a plastic Uncle Sam hat with a Harkin bumper sticker, a secondhand herring-bone overcoat, high-top sneakers. The question he receives most often when knocking on doors is "Why did you come all the way out here?" Kister took a week off from classes at Ohio State and had to reschedule a midterm to work for the Harkin campaign. In Cleveland, he hitched a ride on a bus of Harkin supporters from Iowa...
...hear Morrison courting this muse in the Pentecostal growls and incantations of Listen to the Lion on his 1972 album Saint Dominic's Preview, or personifying it on his new album in Village Idiot, whose protagonist "wears his overcoat in the summer/ And short sleeves in the winter time" but who is nourished by some secret spiritual serenity: "Don't you know he's onto something . . . / Sometimes he looks so happy/ As he goes strolling...
...Upper respiratory tract infections are very common at this time of year when there are rather abrupt temperature and pressure changes," Rosenthal says. "You're out in Bermudas one day and in a sweat-shirt and overcoat the next," he says...