Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years after the Saturday Night Massacre, Cox is still the familiar, almost folksy figure who wouldn't compromise with the devil. He sits somewhere among the folds of an enveloping tweed jacket, with a bright red bow tie, and a crewcut that went out of fashion with a bright red bow tie, and a crewcut that went out of fashion with the two-term President, in a dusty, book-lined office in a corner of Langdell Library. If Harvard academics could design a hero of their-own, who met the real world and won, surely he would look like Archibald...
...should be, in a friendly unpretentious spot somewhere between adolescence and manhood. It's a gangly film, awkward in spots but lovable overall. Perhaps its greatest flaw is that it tries too hard to be loved--and while it does escape looking canned there are a few too many tweed jackets and Shetland sweaters. One might wonder if there ever was, or will be, a prep school quite so preppie as Vernon Academy...
Fourth and Avenue D is constantly crowded with people waiting to score: blacks, Hispanics and middle-class whites. Clean-cut young men in tweed jackets and attractive young women in designer jeans listen intently to the dealers' pitches. "Get your Lucky Seven here-best dope in town." "Colt .45 is Jesus bread." "Poison is mellow today...
Freeman recognizes a few other regulars. "This guy gets on the bus every night at midnight." Freeman says as a tall man with a tweed coat and glasses boards the bus near Hilles. "He must be the librarian or something...
...MAYORAL elections are going to be turning-points for both cities. The last two major big city machines may grind to a half, leaving Daley, Byrne, and White in-the-history books next to Boss Tweed of New York's Tammany Hall...