Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Crowe, an affable, tweed-clad private detective, taught a weekend course in legal procedure. Among his 20 students, Eckardt certainly stood out, by virtue not only of his 350-lb. frame but also of his blustery tales of having worked at various times for the FBI and the CIA. Eckardt, says Crowe, "lives in a world of shadows and trench coats." Also in the class was Saunders, 24, the pastor of a small evangelical congregation in suburban Gresham. Rotund and clean cut, with the zeal of a Boy Scout, Saunders signed up for the course because of his commitment...
Choir boys are singing. Grumpy old men in funny robes are singing. It's foggy outside and people are wearing too much tweed. This must be England-in fact, Oxford of 1951. We are visiting with the charming, boyish at heart, but painfully inhibited C.S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins), author of the Narnia chronicles for children and a well-known theologian. "Shadowlands" is the story of his encounter with the lovely Joy Gresham (Debra Winger), who Lewis at first dismissively descibes as a "Jewish Communist poet from New York...
...bank branches, at more than 50 companies and at major commuter points like Grand Central station. There New York Cares has set up a display of coats from such celebrities as New York Knicks star Charles Smith (a towering blue worsted) and Mayor-elect Rudolph Giuliani (a staid gray tweed) to tweak the conscience of suburbanites. The coats are turned over to 200 agencies around the city to be given to those who need them. New York Cares says it costs less than $1 a coat...
Some pepper. A kite. Or a clock made of tweed...
Does the body politic of the United States still lounge in the days of Boss Tweed? How strange that the Republicans in New Jersey have not leveled parallel charges of pay-off practices at the defeated Democrats! Stranger still, that so many other elections went off without a hitch in a time when media bombshells bring in the big bucks. We need not even debate the political correctness of Safire's last few phrases; they testify to his poor understanding of the problem...