Word: tuxedoed
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...like Fritz Mondale. He was up in New York in his tuxedo the other day, picking up money from rich people, and he felt compelled to say, "I'm not going to base my campaign on how bad the economy is, because I want it to improve."Then he said "I mean that. I want the economy to improve." I think he said that one time too many...
...crowd at the Grammy Awards last week looked as if it had just flown in from one of the moons of Saturn: glittering, snorting the intergalactic dust. Touches of the high crass mingled with a sort of metaphysical flash. Stevie Wonder, for example, wore a cumulously quilted white satin tuxedo whose upswept lapels formed great angel wings. The costume had the curious effect of making him look like a Puritan headstone...
...said had not been voiced before (the French insisted that they had). Feeling doublecrossed, Reagan went ahead with his speech anyway, incensing the French, who immediately disavowed any accord. That night U.S. Ambassador Evan Galbraith was called out of a U.S. Marine Corps ball in Paris and summoned, in tuxedo, to the Quai d'Orsay for a chewing-out. Two days later Mitterrand declared, with Gallic sarcasm, "France is not a party to what is not even an agreement...
Although many of the stores sell the same items, such as Harris tweed jackets and tuxedo trousers, each has an allure of its own, customers...
...resides in an elite suburb with his wife Mercedes, a flustered maid served coffee while the shy, stout author made plans to accept his award in Stockholm. He intends to wear the traditional Mexican guayabera, a lightweight shirt worn outside the trousers. Said he: "To avoid putting on a tuxedo, I'll stand the cold." The creator of fictional ice, amnesia and ascending bedsheets could hardly do otherwise...