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Clad in a Red Sox cap, black Nikes, and a bright mustard-colored shirt, Moura, 24, arrives at Harvard after finishing his shifts at two other jobsāassembling light fixtures at a local distributor and buffing floors in a hair parlor...
...filmed flesh, the visible image, seems to have the advantage. Great movie characters do not often beat on the gates of prose, begging to be turned back into words. (Movies get "novelized" sometimes, of course, but novelization is merely a spin-off, like a doll or a T shirt.) Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind sold a million copies in its first seven months. After the movie appeared, Rhett Butler was irreversibly Clark Gable. Scarlett O'Hara was Vivien Leigh. Mitchell's prose withered to the irrelevance of an architect's blueprint after the house is built. Dashiell Hammett...
...rules, marketing them and playing subtle little games with them. In the boardroom or the law office, such rules are not flouted, never mind broken. They are nudged gently. The fold of a handkerchief in the breast pocket of a suit jacket, the width of a stripe on a shirt, a print on a pair of bright suspenders: these are the permissible talismans of individuality. Pitiful...
...loathe conformity," he announces, before setting down the boundaries of permissible audacity. A tie may be anywhere from 52 to 58 inches long. Ties are ideally 3¼ inches wide, but those from 2¾ to 3½ inches are also "acceptable." There are seven collar styles that pass dress-shirt muster; 6 inches of shirt should hang below the waist; and the monogram--if there is one at all--should be rendered with ¼ inch letters placed 5 or 6 inches above the waist. Jacket lapels should be 3½ inches wide, and there should be half an inch of shirt collar showing...
...Then he leaned over the bar and, in a soft voice, recited an old Bruce Kiskaddon verse about the dangers of an enraged cow: "Think a cow boy cain't run? Well you aint seen one sail/ When a cow blows her nose on some waddy's shirt tail...