Word: raincoated
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...actress at all. "The only time I'm good," she says, "is when I'm playing myself." But what an ineffable presence that self is. Painter Bernard Buffet saw her on TV in 1962 and immediately told his wife: "This girl is Electra in a black raincoat. Tomorrow all the French girls will want to look like her, to sing her song." Bruno Coquatrix, director of Paris' most coveted show case, the Olympia Music Hall (where Françoise signed on for three weeks and stayed for eight), sees her as "a symbol of the mystery...
...secretary carried a black raincoat and insisted that it be put next to his chair in the WHRB "or else I'll forget it." But he left it under his seat as he left the studio, and he was halfway out the door before he realized that he'd forgotten it. He turned vaguely to one of his aides, and then realizing where it was, stepped briskly back through the door to retrieve the coat himself. Leaving for Quincy House, he walked, crisp and business-like to a waiting car, his sleekly combed hair unruffled by the sharp wind overhead...
Through feathers of steam and shrill cries of "Sa trăiască!" (Long life!) stepped a short, square-shouldered man wearing a blue nylon raincoat and a quizzical expression. Within minutes, Nicolae Ceausescu, 48, leader of Rumania's Communist Party and the youngest Red ruler in Eastern Europe, had changed into his "touring outfit" and was ready to roll...
...shows in both cities was Emilio Pucci, the prince of pants. With print patterns more brilliant than ever, he served up palazzo pajamas, long silk dresses in floral motifs. Princess Irene Galitzine, whose clients include Charlotte Ford Niarchos, showed sarongs and bras for sleeping, a long transparent raincoat and-along with practically everybody else-yards of pants. Much-applauded was her "Margit," a baggy chiffon nightgown-pajama with a low, frilly neck...
According to Sgt. Leo F. Davenport of the Cambridge Police, the bandit left on foot in an "old, green raincoat similar to what you'd see a professor wearing." He then walked up Dunster St. across Massachusetts Ave. to the MBTA, leaving a trail of bills behind...