Word: tieless
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...exclamation mark hanging from the throat. It subtly directs attention away from the wearer's physicality. Worn with full business suit, it can be a form of armoring, a defense and an assertion of power. It can also be a gesture of compliance. White House Aide Hamilton Jordan, tieless and amiably scruffy for years, has started dressing (almost contritely) in suit and tie in the wake of stories about his drinking and raffishness. Often, the tie is a uniform signaling solidarity among certain kinds of men, a semaphore announcing that "we all speak the language." It gives...
...cook. You want some French fries, I'll give you some French fries. I'm not sitting here making great decisions." That is pure Jordan, or "Jerden," as the name is pronounced down home. To all appearances, he is the good ole boy come to Washington: joshing, tieless, rumpled, feet on desk, a thick scallop of hair falling across an unlined, apple-cheeked face that is as unrevealing of emotion as a painted Easter egg. Operating only 50 steps from the Oval Office, Jordan, 32, still looks as if he would be more at home with the boys...
...city is full of families and people having fun. I'd just love to stay for a whole month." Texas Delegate Glen Maxey, 24, and a friend, about to be turned away from the posh, 65th-floor Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center because they were coatless and tieless, reminded the headwaiter that "your mayor told us we could go anywhere we wanted." The headwaiter smiled and, wonder of wonders, escorted them to a window table...
...were everywhere to be seen on Rome streets, as were nude bathers on Copenhagen beaches, and topless nymphs in Stockholm parks. Though the Coldstream Guards at Buckingham Palace sweltered stoically in their bearskins, London bobbies resorted to what some considered to be the British equivalent of toplessness -they went tieless. "It's the first time in our history we've allowed them to do this," explained an apologetic London inspector. "As soon as the weather turns back to normal, the ties will be back...
...Davis, 29, godson of Mendel Rivers, the late autocratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Davis is banking on the "Mendel mystique" and his role as protector of the military installations that were his godfather's legacy to the district. Limehouse, who goes about coatless and tieless and shows up at Democratic rallies to hand out free soft drinks, accuses Davis of being "pure old Southern Claghorn...