Word: overcoats
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...evident weariness and perhaps relief, when he flew back to Peking. There, in pronounced contrast to the quiet scene that had greeted Nixon's arrival a week earlier, Chou received a hero's welcome of unprecedented proportions. As he stepped from his plane wearing a heavy blue overcoat against a biting winter wind, he was met by the entire top echelon of his government, delegations of students, workers and soldiers, and some 5,000 "spectators" who waved bouquets and shouted slogans hailing "Chairman Mao's revolutionary diplomatic line...
...trout-fishing scene in Hemingway's Big Two-Hearted River, Smith pays tribute to the old man with an exquisite parody of his style. It is done with the same sense of casual gratitude that a young hippie might express when accepting his father's old Army overcoat...
Claire's Knee is, essentially, an opalescent homage to M. Marcel Proust. As 19th century Russian fiction is supposed to have tumbled from Gogol's Overcoat, modern French films have risen from Proust's Remembrance. Proust's work is clustered with optical allusions, accounts of the distortions of love in the fourth dimension of time. In its way it was the end of a line that could not be continued on the page-that needed the liberation of the camera. Directors such as Karel Reisz (Isadora) and Alain Renais (La Guerre Est Finie) acknowledge their debt...
Though there are distinct advantages to the cut and flare of capes (swooping into rooms, for example, is hard going in a traditional overcoat), the style has its drawbacks too. Says San Francisco Chronicle Fashion Editor Joan Chatfield-Taylor: "You have to do your swooping out of doors. In a store, you are sure to break everything in sight." Moreover, cape wearers would do well to stock up on small clutch purses: standard-size pocketbooks held beneath the fabric imply that the lady is either pregnant or a smuggler...
...until the horde had settled into a ravenous chant of "Franco! Franco! Franco! Franco!" did the Caudillo step onto the balcony. Dressed in a heavy gray overcoat, and looking all of his 78 years, he could hardly have found his reception disappointing. When the crowd saw Prince Juan Carlos, Spain's future king, at Franco's side, they shouted "Franco solo! Franco solo!" Paling visibly, the young prince quickly stepped back. "Spaniards!" croaked Francisco Franco in his high voice. "Thank you for this explosion of faith and enthusiasm, seconded by the people who believe in the destiny...