Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tall and thin, with curly blond hair cascading over his ears and neck, a mustache and a goatee, a thrift-shop tweed coat, a 1940s-vintage wool overcoat and a single earring. Britton will lead today's workshop on the fine points of piping technique. He is something of a phenomenon: only 26, he has been a master piper for a decade. He did have an unfair advantage: his father George was a folk musician and music teacher before it was fashionable and was a founder of the venerable Philadelphia Folk Song Society. Tim started on baritone ukulele before...
Calero, clad in a soft tweed sports coat and a spread-collared blue shirt, predicted that the Arias peace plan will fail. "I believe the Sandinistas will not have fulfilled by November 5th the commitment that they made in Guatemala: freedom of the press, freedom of movement, amnesty for the 12,000 political prisoners and free elections," he said...
...from day to day, from revolution to Yeti sighting to Est fest to Krishna love-in, and then one day you wake up and everyone's wearing tweed. Suddenly "sold out" just means "standing room only...
...tall man in a tweed sports jacket walks back and forth along the aisles of the theater, gabbling into a microphone about the auteurist theory of stage direction. Then he drags recalcitrant actors from the wings and introduces them by their real names. After angry debate, they undertake to improvise scenes that will define their 1920s Sicilian characters, only to have the speaker break in and say they have talked enough. All the while, an impish man uses a video camera to record the proceedings and simultaneously project them onto a screen at center stage. The cameraman narrates a "documentary...
...live in these times? Take a tour with me. The country feels enormous still, and various, in spite of airport roads that look identical everywhere and stores that unite the country in a fast-food mythology. The electric glass of Dallas could not be mistaken for Boston's pedagogical tweed or San Diego's white sail. In New York City this season, the sky dims by 4 in the afternoon, and the shop lights pop on like gold-and-white lanterns...