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...wearing it again the night he was assassinated. Later, Charles Lindbergh celebrated his famous flight in a Brooks Brothers suit, and Clark Gable frequently placed custom orders. The brand was popular in academic institutions as well, and the polo coat became the uniform at places like Miss Porter's School. On Ivy League campuses, Brooks' preppy innovations like argyle, seersucker and madras?all brought to U.S. shores by the retailer?developed into the dress code. Even the silk foulard necktie, today a key part of business attire, was first imported from England by Brooks Brothers in 1890 and later updated...
...Silver Streak, Pryor and Gene Wilder's comedic take on The Defiant Ones. In the penultimate moment, Pryor's character, camouflaged as a lowly train porter, flips a gat on the uppity white villain, demanding to know, in a brilliant combination of anger and comic timing, "Who you callin' nigger?" Yeah. That was all of us. That was all of black America wanting to know from any race baiter as we moved through the Establishment: Excuse me, who exactly are you calling nigger...
...comes to life in Act II, going beyond the cartoonish aspect of Gilbert and Sullivan to portray Josephine as a character with emotion and intelligence. The best performance of the evening comes from Brian C. Polk ’09 in the role of the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., First Lord of the Admiralty, whose extended title reveals all you need to know about his character. Polk gives Sir Joseph a dynamic face and a manner of self-satisfied delight which, along with Sir Joseph’s firm belief that all Englishmen are equal, except himself, create...
...those days, immortals like the Gershwins and Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart built shows around the top performers. Star turns are just what Broadway used to thrive on and now shrivels from; yet, glory be, here's one. You may discount the rumors that the Tony committee isn't going to bother nominating four other women for the Best Actress in a Musical award because Ebersole already has an unbreakable lock on it. But, no question, she's totally terrif: funny, sexy, domineering, pitiable, lending her formidable, witty soprano voice to two disparate roles she was born to play...
Harry Mitchell (D., Ariz.) The high school civics teacher knows his way around government. High grades may also go to Dave Loebsack (D., Iowa) and Carol Shea-Porter (D., N.H.), two college professors...