Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Green velvet, black silk, silver spandex and tweed jackets flash as 30 men and women line up by team outside the shiny wooden dance floor...
...evergreen comic novels. Yet as Martin Stannard makes clear in this second and concluding volume of his brilliantly definitive biography, Waugh was a sad and even tragic figure. In his youth a dandified aesthete and party animal, he evolved into an eccentric, scowling, West Country squire who wore hideous tweed suits and wielded a Victorian ear trumpet like a snickersnee against enemies, real and imagined. That noli me tangere pose barely masked the inner Waugh: a self-lacerating loner who for a time, Stannard asserts, was certifiably schizophrenic. (The experience was transmuted in Waugh's strangest novel, The Ordeal...
...wants to move to the suburbs. Move the Redskins, that is, to a rail yard in Alexandria, Virginia. No matter that Washington doesn't want the 'Skins to leave and Alexandria doesn't want them to come. In a secret deal whose conspiratorial bravado would have set Boss Tweed and Mark Hanna drooling, Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder offered $130 million to construct roads and rail links to a stadium Cooke would build and own. And Cooke gets to keep all proceeds from food and parking...
...stepped an elderly man in a rumpled grey tweed jacket and equally wrinkled slacks. He reached into his back pocket for his wallet to pay the cab driver, then picked up a small brown tweed garment bag and walked past an indifferent press corps into the library...
...time they sent all of us to one of those awareness training sessions. There was one of those tweed ladies, you know, with the tight tweed coat buttoned up to here, like this, and she say in this mincy little voice, 'You are going to say some things that might make other people uncomfortable, but I want everyone understand, anything you say in this room stays in this room...