Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to the Lamont circulation supervisor, the suspect is a white male, about 5'9," who is in his mid-twenties. He has short, dark brown hair and was wearing a brown tweed overcoat over a suit...
Four identically-dressed hijackers, each clad in a natty brown tweed jacket and tie and machine gun, control an entire train under the streets of New York. But the film's humor lies in the parallel it draws between the terror of being underground in the dark tunnels of the NYC subway system and the crowded madness of the everyday life above the streets...
Wearing a light tweed suit and clutching afluorescent bouquet of flowers, Foster admittedher academic sins...
...tweed-suited member of the better-paid classes what's gone wrong, and you'll get a lot of chin stroking about vast, impersonal forces such as declining productivity and global competition. But real wages fell faster in the '80s than in the '70s, while productivity rose faster in the '80s. Besides, executive salaries have soared in the past 10 years, and it's the executives who decide whether to invest in junk bonds or modern equipment and technology. Theories of the global economy may explain a lot of things, but they don't make it any easier...
...Lagerfeld's romance with the fabric is a weapon in his war against what he calls "the diktats of fashion," whereby certain garments and accessories can be worn only in particular settings -- silk for splendor, denim for fun. In his designs for Chanel, the maestro is mixing up materials -- tweed, denim, grosgrain -- with such sleight of hand that some of his efforts look more formal than his variations on the house's classic...