Word: plaid
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Levin had previously said he would consider wearing pajamas to lecture, and he didn't disappoint, sporting matching plaid blue P.J.'s and gray bunny slippers...
...Coat: The first thing I noticed was the baby-blue coat. She's definitely not afraid to stand out. It's the kind of blue that definitely stands out in a crowd, especially in the dead of winter when everyone is wearing black. Especially the baby-blue with the plaid lining. That's to say she's very confident in herself and doesn't depend on the reinforcement of others...
...Postulate 3: Amidst all this beverage befuddlement, this southern belle promptly lost, and found, and lost again, the worlds most priceless object, The Jewel of Denial, picked up an inspector-gadget type at the bar (color: plaid), discovered her family heritage, failed to fire her criminal maid, financed an expedition to Egypt worthy of the Natural History Museums Alumni Tours, forgot to stop at the Nile, befriended a beheaded Pharoahs wife, and used, we presume, approximately 36 cans of hairspray to hold her coiffure firmly three feet above her head...
...Shorey, who is wearing a white hooded sweatshirt with the hood pulled up tight and a plaid shirt underneath to guard against the cold, says he is not a drug user. "Some people are," he says and many women and men assume that Shorey is also a drug user. "After I sold a paper yesterday, a random woman leaving the bank said 'I don't support drug habits,' as she walked by." Shorey was none too pleased, and when the woman made a point of telling a recent purchaser of Spare Change that Shorey was on drugs...
...Online, have inked the biggest deal in corporate history. Levin is nibbling on pieces of fruit, sipping room-temperature mineral water and projecting a becoming tranquillity. He looks as if he's just stepped in from Harvard Yard, wrapped in a forest green corduroy jacket with an open-necked plaid shirt tucked underneath. When he speaks, his voice has the delicate cadence of a professor singing out the most violent passages of Macbeth with a studied calm. He has, it seems, left his globe-striding, Gulfstream-riding, options-exercising CEO persona somewhere on the other side of this megadeal...