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When Dylan walked on, about thirty minutes into the show, the energy in the Civic Center surged. Wearing a black vest and a dark, flower-adorned sombrero, Dylan acknowledged the crowd's standing ovation with a small wave. He lit into "When I Paint My Masterpiece," an ironic song, loosely based on the scene in Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night where Dick Diver wanders around Rome and decides he will never be a great writer...
Miller's example sets the imagination to work matching other voices, other tunes. John Mitchell, in serape and sombrero, selling enchiladas - big enchiladas. John Dean promoting a memory course, Maurice Stans a detergent...
Perhaps in recognition of that unhappy fact, Washington has been talking about the Mexico City meeting in rather guarded terms. Notably missing has been any grand verbal sweep of the Yankee sombrero-the rhetorical overkill that, for instance, heralded the southern tour of Kissinger's predecessor William Rogers as the most important visit by any American Secretary of State in more than 40 years. Such hyperbole -which said "everything without doing anything," in the words of one Latin diplomat-has turned many Latin Americans into skeptics about U.S. intentions...
...lost sartorially to their fans. It was a crowd of funk-furred and metallic-threaded celebrities, including Chanteuse Bette Midler in jeans and mink, New York Knick Star Walt Frazier in a bold red and white blazer, Actor Jack Nicholson in loud pin stripes, Barbra Streisand in a sombrero, plus Senators Edward Kennedy and John Tunney in mufti. Ali Partisan John Kennedy Jr., in a blazer, escorted his aunt Lee Radziwill, in black and gold striped lame, to a ringside seat after exchanging gentle warmup jabs with the fighter in his dressing room. Then he snapped the action with...
Suddenly a bell starts ringing. The boy Oton, his plastic-covered sombrero pulled down over his eyes as usual, has run up the ladder that leans against the church wall to the roof and is swinging the bell back and forth. A three-day-old child has died. It was unable to urinate and the doctor could not be summoned from across the fields, over the bumpy road, fast enough...