Word: tuxedoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dress code in Los Angeles is assuredly not strict. So the other customers at the shopping mall on Santa Monica Boulevard that evening scarcely noticed the newcomer in a tuxedo who had joined them in line at the flower stalls. Neither the young lady in the decal-covered bomber jacket nor the young gentleman with the sheepskin vest over his T shirt and the pith helmet saw any reason to fuss over someone evidently doin' his thing in a tuxedo costume. No, what turned their heads was the new arrival's inquiry...
Johnson is serious about wines, but not too serious. Vintage offers some deadpan send-ups of oenophile pretension. One segment displays a dinner at a Madeira Club in Savannah, where tuxedo-clad grandees, after a traditional meal of turtle soup and roast duck, grope for words to describe some rare 19th century Malmseys and Verdelhos. "It's like the young Brahms and the mature Liszt," burbles one member...
...sultry, elegant, shot in black and white. A tuxedo-clad man stares appreciatively at the long, thin legs of his companion. The woman, with demure pearls around her neck, has an empty smile on her face and very high heels on her feet. The ad, entitled "Reflections on Lindsay," is for Hanes pantyhose...
...shoppers accept this inequality, but not Muriel Mabry and Lori Anderson, two California businesswomen. When they bought dresses this summer at a Saks Fifth Avenue store in Costa Mesa, Calif., they were each charged about $40 for alterations. Meanwhile, the women claim, Anderson's husband bought a suit and tuxedo that the store tailored for free...
...working." But others are disabled and cannot work; still others are eager to carry a bag, wash a window, weed a yard, pump some gas, for whatever they can earn. William Harris, 50, works the parking lot of a Ralphs supermarket in Hollywood. Wearing a gray pinstripe vest, tuxedo shirt, vermilion shoes and blue Yankees cap, he asks customers if he can take their shopping carts back to the rack. Each cart returned brings Harris an automatic 25 cents. "I don't feel sorry for people who say they're hungry," he says. "You just go out and hustle. Nobody...