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...Ralph Lauren--next to a ridiculous little sportcoat cut from pink-green-and-blue madras plaid--that I spotted the Holy Grail: a perfect navy blue blazer in a smooth flannel wool. It was $240. I knew I would end up with the Gap's predictably adequate $48 version, but I lingered at Ralph Lauren, fingering the blazer's golden buttons, trying to rationalize such an indulgent purchase. It's a special occasion, I reminded myself. Nothing's too good for my boy. Besides, the jacket was cheap compared with the $525 vintage Levi's ("That's five bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How I Avoided Temptation | 7/14/2003 | See Source »

...other things. "I ended up changing the title to Heart Attack and Vine, and that's what I'm working on now. I'd say the sound's a little more rhythm & blues. Got a song called 'Drinkin' Whiskey in Church,' one called 'Breakfast in Jail,' another called 'Whose Sportcoat Is That?' Another, 'Pomona Lisa.' A lot of it I'm going to break in on the road...

Author: By Stephen X. Rea, | Title: The Tom Waits Cross-Country Marathon Interview | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

...understanding with each other. Each understood that neither could communicate with the other. So it makes sense that one of Satch's initial tasks with the Celtics will be to restore communication between the coach and the players, a task for which he's as perfectly suited as a sportcoat from Robert Hall...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Who's Kidding Whom, Or, Could You Speak Up a Little? | 1/5/1978 | See Source »

...find My Way Home." The Lieberman-Kushnick segment of the program began forcefully, and later drifted to the ethereal with "Holes in the Sky," a 32-bar rendition of a poem by Louis NacNiece. The next four songs formed a cycle beginning with the straightforward harmonic piece, "Velvet Sportcoat," followed by "Ode to the Apocalypse" and its fast-paced thematic cousin, "Ark Tangents," whose music dances upon Daniel Dern's surrela lyrics...

Author: By Michael Barber, | Title: A Psychic Jiggler | 4/28/1977 | See Source »

...perceptions, Jeannie Lieberman sees herself as "a psychic emotional jiggler" who asks herself "deep root questions," and expects the listener to do the same. She uses her voice as an instrument, experimenting to discover the right texture, color and feel. The rising glissando in the second verse of "Velvet Sportcoat" abruptly alters the mood set by the song's first verse, and underscores the words: Haze like juice spilled slowly formless/Scent of citrus in my ears." In one of Johnson's compositions, "Instrumental," Lieberman makes bird like sounds that are almost primal as they echo above Joynson's gentle electric...

Author: By Michael Barber, | Title: A Psychic Jiggler | 4/28/1977 | See Source »

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