Word: sweater
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years after Faulkner made these remarks, two writers again turned toward Hollywood in search of the American ideal. Nathaniel West, slaving in a B-grade studio to reduce the images of silver screen gangster sagas to flicks like The Black Coin where a young hero, wearing a white sweater, is attacked regularly by four burly men in black, turned the ideal upside down. In The Day of the Locust America became a Hollywood burlesque...
...chief continuing dispute between the contenders was over the temperature in the studios. Nixon wanted it low to check his tendency to perspire. Bobby Kennedy spoofed the problem at one point by walking into NBC's Washington studio, pulling his sweater up to his chin and waving his arms to increase circulation. For the split-screen debate, temperature was no problem: Nixon had his Los Angeles studio chilled to 58°; a continent away, Kennedy enjoyed a more normal environment...
...perhaps in the low 40s, and going down. A woman announces that she was so high after yesterday's session that she felt no need for food. A man says that on the way home, Seventh Avenue smelled of clover. A hefty housewife, who is wearing a heavy sweater over a wool dress, asks if the air conditioners could be turned off. Ron says "the temperature will be what it will be," but she is allowed to fetch her coat...
...number of bishops are acutely aware of the problem, and have adopted a more pastoral, less authoritarian style. During an annual "walk for vocations" Archbishop Robert Sanchez of Santa Fe, the first Hispanic-American archbishop in the U.S., strolls along the street in jeans and a sweater with the teenagers of his diocese. Bishop Charles Buswell of Pueblo, Colo., a feisty innovator who parish-hops his diocese on Sundays, introduced himself to a five-year-old girl at a recent Mass as "Charlie." When he came down the church aisle at the end of Mass, the little girl shouted, "Nice...
...life," says another former Yankee star, Shortstop Phil Rizzuto. For the "Scooter's" first big-league season, the Yankees offered $5,000. Rizzuto got an audience with Barrow to complain: "I went into his office and he was sitting there, a big burly guy wearing a sweater with holes at both elbows. He was eating a ham sandwich. He looked up and asked me what I wanted. I told him I thought I deserved more money. He stared at me, then said, 'Sign it or get out.' What could I do? I signed...