Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...collecting ideas, the Secretary sought advice inside and outside the Government, sometimes at meetings that resembled bull sessions. At one Saturday steak-and-eggs breakfast at the State Department last month, Shultz, professonally dressed in a tweed jacket and Argyle sweater, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and other top officials heard from Brian Jenkins of the California-based Rand Corp., who is an authority on worldwide terrorism. Jenkins stressed that officials must face the essential question: Are you prepared to use force...
...good news the next day by Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam. Ambassador Robert Paganelli, who was not invited to Jackson's briefing, was informed moments later. Meanwhile, Goodman was driven from his Damascus military jail to the U.S. embassy. After putting on a tie and brown tweed jacket supplied by Jackson, he had a celebratory lunch at the Damascus-Sheraton and boarded an Air Force C-141 for the flight home. As the transport plane gained altitude, TIME Correspondent Jack White reported, a relieved Jackson paraded down the aisle exulting, "From Galilee to jubilee...
...strands that run through his daytime wear, the dominant one is meticulous tailoring. An outfit in loden green wool tweed, made for the Dior label, is a marvel of classic grace achieved through proportion and soft pleating. Pants, which Saint Laurent thinks may be his biggest contribution to fashion, have clear, economical lines, never exaggerated, never mannish. Good tailoring is behind what is truly his greatest influence on clothing, the huge (172 outlets) international string of Rive Gauche shops, started in 1966, that sell Saint Laurent's ready-to-wear line. There are only a few examples...
...find national-brand merchandise as well as labels bearing the names of celebrities. In the jeans department, Levi's can be found next to Sears' familiar Tough-skins. The men's departments have an Arnie line, named for Golfer Arnold Palmer, which includes $95 tweed sports jackets, and will soon carry Johnny Carson suits. Women can find garments bearing the labels of Model Cheryl Tiegs and Tennis Player Evonne Goolagong. Adding fashion to its fundamentals has been a surprising hit. The Tiegs line has generated an estimated $200 million in sales during its first 15 months...
...tumbled, half ran past the Crimson 'H' sweaters, the Vuarnaise sunglasses, the tweed jackets, the finished Bloody Marys. Every innocent, smiling, yammering face was evil, responsible for this idiocy, a part of this mass subjgation of reason, this mass return to the cradle for otherwise rational Blue and Crimson graduates...