Word: sweatered
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...PAUL, Minn.--She stood out in the crowd. No, it wasn't her gold hair that won her notice. It was her gold sweater. She was a Minnesota fan in Harvard's section of the St. Paul Civic Center...
...mirror, Tom's eyes flick nervously toward Henderson, seeking rescue. She has plucked him out of the familiar styles he settled on back when a pair of Weejuns cost $20, and he is lost among the choices. The first sweater he bought with Henderson's help struck him as so ugly, so splotched with color, that he left it hanging in his room for a week. But people loved it, people who'd never looked at him twice, except in dismay. So he is meekly agreeable when Henderson puts him in a midnight blue Giorgio Armani suit with tone...
...last hours of the Reagans were crammed with thunderous tributes and then dozens of tiny, human gestures of thanks. The Notre Dame football team, voted the national champion, came by and left Reagan the blue-and-gold letter sweater of George Gipp. Suddenly make-believe was real; the latter-day Gipper finally had the authentic article, and he clung to it reverently as the team departed. The apt gift touched him almost as much as anything that happened in the parting...
Weiss, who produced the film, is a jovial wiseguy, as are his frequent collaborators David Zucker and Jim Abrahams. When I told them I would be reviewing the movie, Zucker, in a facetious attempt to influence my opinion, said, "Really? That's a nice sweater you have on." When Abrahams arrived a few minutes later, I told him the same thing and he retorted, without prompting from Zucker, "Lovely shirt you're wearing...
...event and comes to rest at a glistening green public park in the most splendid of California mornings. A soccer field, roped off. Twenty or 30 small boys in their soccer uniforms, their parents and friends on the sidelines. The candidate appears, wearing khakis, red crew-neck sweater and jogging shoes. He saunters in his freighted way across the grass toward the boys, and then, without transition, starts idly toeing a soccer ball toward them, again in that curious slow-motion way he has, his body doing not the act itself but the slo-mo replay. The photographers click away...