Word: overcoats
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Only Nature Counts. The kinship of his harlequin colors seems miraculous. Foliage flutters before the eye like scurrying butterflies. An overcoat lying on a chair takes on the bulk and presence of its wearer. A still life of skulls-piled more like strange fruit than memento mori-melts their contours into the curves of a parti-colored tablecloth in a haunting arabesque...
When Hassan landed in Algiers last week, his reception was less than overwhelming. The Algerian honor guard wore sneakers for the arrival ceremony; Algeria's Defense Minister Houari Boumedienne, was in an unadorned civilian overcoat-no medals, no epaulets-and kept it on even at a state reception that evening. Though Hassan is about as interested in socialism as Louis XIV was, his hosts insisted on showing him one state farm and socialist work project after another. At the end of three days, Hassan wore a fixed smile that seemed cemented to his face...
...quiet afternoon at Checkpoint Charlie in West Berlin when suddenly a convoy of official cars raced up to the Wall from the Communist sector of the city. Out swarmed dozens of Russian security men around a familiar portly figure decked out in a black astrakhan cap and grey overcoat. It was Nikita Khrushchev all right, and he promptly proceeded to give one of his impromptu theatrical performances. Grinning broadly, he mugged for photographers, gaily waved a pudgy finger at the barbed wire and steel barrier, then ambled over for a chat with a busload of astonished Italian newsmen. Asking...
...structure of many viruses in their conventional forms is well known. They consist of a core of nucleic acid-either ribonucleic acid (RNA) or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-wrapped in a protein overcoat. It is in this form that they are most readily detectable. And also, it appears, most active: the naked nucleic acid alone (stripped of its overcoat by delicate chemical means) can produce most of the effects of the whole virus, but it is a thousand times less powerful. Evidently, the researchers suggest, the virus needs to be "carefully packaged for safe transmission." One effective package design is like...
...interrupted by his wife, who reminded him of a pressing dinner engagement and an impending curtain. As we slipped quietly out the door, we heard him return to Miss Jacobs and her cities. "Cities," said Dr. Jonathan Miller to Mrs. Jonathan Miller while she bustled him into an overcoat, "get the kind of streets they deserve. Slums are permissive, not initiative. Yes, yes, I'm coming...