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Behind me, two female devotees--one in flowing yellow Indian robes, the other in the regulation spiky bleached hair, plaid flannel shirt and black cotton tights of the Cambridge punk scene--linked arms, and twirled happily to the music...
Scott Filston was one of my friends. He was from North Carolina, which in his case meant that he had just enough naive boyishness to call a girl "Darlin" without sounding like a sexist throwback. He usually wore a plaid shirt with a red bandanna and a pair of torn jeans crisscrossed by the names of his favorite bands in black ink. He used to slap his thighs when he broke into his high-pitched cackle, a laugh that only comes from the South. When I first met him, he struck me as someone I had always known--probably from...
...doctors' orders, Reagan restricted his exercise to leisurely strolls with Wife Nancy. Then last Saturday the President obliged the network crews by appearing on horseback with Nancy and five others. Wearing jodhpurs, plaid shirt and a baseball-style hat, Reagan rode for 30 minutes. His mount was perfectly named for the occasion: Elusive Hobby...
...keep the firm relatively small--and flexible. "We don't take too well to a structured job." Langerman says, citing his experience at Microsoft and Elvy's at IBM--where Elvy says he was forced to wear "IBM grey" every day, until one day he rebelled and wore plaid pants. "We work a heck of a lot better by ourselves," Langerman adds...
...Bulow, who maintained an imperious aloofness during the first trial, seems to have undergone image surgery. Though he still looks as if he would be most at home in a uniform, he has taken to draping his 6-ft. 3-in. frame with the occasional plaid sport coat instead of the somber suits of the first trial. Last week, as Corinne Grande, the presiding judge, led jurors on a walking tour of Clarendon Court, the family mansion in Newport and the alleged scene of the crime, Von Bulow strayed over to the kennel to play with the three golden retrievers...