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Despite a brilliant winter sun, the frigid wind is piercing. Presentation of wreaths keeps the President-hatless, dressed in a lightweight black topcoat-standing in the cold for nearly 15 minutes, and he is almost shaking by the tune he speaks briefly about the President "whose grace, compassion and earnest commitment is remembered in countless biographies, folk tales and poetry...
...Bryant's style is an unrivaled sense of the symbolic. Throughout his career, he has been known for the dramatic gesture that galvanizes players, opponents and fans. When he became head coach at Texas A&M in 1954, he walked into a student meeting, took off his topcoat at the back of the hall, pulled off his jacket and tie as he stepped to the podium, stomped on them, then kicked them aside. Finally, he rolled up his sleeves, leaned into the microphone and announced in a low, firm voice: "My name is Bear Bryant...
...inexplicable events intruded into everyday life. With his dry, matter-of-fact technique, Magritte painted things so ordinary that they might have come from a phrase book: an apple, a comb, a derby hat, a cloud, a birdcage, a street of prim suburban houses, a businessman in a dark topcoat, a stolid nude. There was not much in this list that an average Belgian clerk, around 1935, might not have seen in the course of an average day. But Magritte's combinations were another thing. Magritte's poetry was inconceivable without the banality on, and through, which...
...grandfather refuses the invitation to move into the house of his children and play the role of an "absurd martinet... Driving his Dodge touring car and wearing his gabardine topcoat and his big straw hat," he prefers to turn up at irregular intervals to visit his grandson. The adolescent, by letting himself be caught in drinking and sex orgies, tries to convince his grandfather that they have nothing in common. When he goes to bed with a respectable girl only to shock his grandfather, he succeeds in making the old man accept his assigned role in the family. The grandson...
...Strolling along the streets of New Hampshire, usually wearing only a business suit and not even a topcoat, despite the severity of the Granite State winter, was an athletic looking gentleman named Paul Fisher who told people he was a ball-point pen manufacturer from Chicago and was seeking the Democratic nomination for President. Fisher's platform, he said, was simple: abolish the income tax. 'That's nice', was the general reaction and most people immediately got the impression that Fisher was playing with half a deck...