Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sits at a table in Seattle's Red Robin restaurant almost humbly, nursing a Rainier beer. The slightly graying hair is neatly combed, well trimmed and barely touching the ears. The suit is a conservative gray tweed, the tie quiet and reassuring. So are his soft-spoken musings, hard to hear over the taped jazz and folk music. "America is in good shape," he offers soothingly. "America is not ideologically racist. Americans are willing to give people a fair shake." He could be a small businessman decompressing amiably between a week's rash of orders and the idyl...
Willie Shawcross, as his friends call him, was just another war correspondent dodging machine-gun fire in Southeast Asia in 1975. This was no place for an Oxford-educated man who looks at home in a tweed three-piece suit, especially for one who didn't enjoy the strains of daily journalism. "Daily journalism is very bad in terms of giving scope and finding out what the hell is going on," says Shawcross. So in 1975, when the Khmer Rouge overran neighboring Cambodia, and Shawcross began to get horror stories from the refugees he talked with, he returned to London...
...folks." The latest University of New Hampshire poll has Reagan four percentage points behind Bush, and indicates that the gap between the two men is growing steadily. The comments are adding to a new perception: Reagan as a reeling, slipping old man, about to give way to the new, tweed-capped Superman who spent some time in Peking...
...Institution has chosen to enshrine the brown leather jacket that became Arthur Fonzerelli's trademark through seven hit seasons of TV's Happy Days comedy series. Actor Henry Winkler, 34, who went from unknowndom to stardom as Fonzi, not only made the presentation himself, but donned a tweed suit for the occasion. "There is a lot of 167 episodes in this jacket," said he fondly, reminiscing over the stains that were made on it by hard work, makeup and even a piece of cake that was mashed into it on cue. "It changed my life...