Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Snapping his fingers, James shuffles over to FM from news. Small, dark and decked in tweed, this investigative reporter spends his free time reading French poetry and availing himself of other people's personal information. James likes to keep his eggs in many baskets; he'll fraternize with anyone from terrorists to Harvard suits to Kroks, but don t expect any personal revelations from this exec next year. He promises to make ed notes anonymous and as for Would You Rather, he'd rather just not play...
...craggy, dark-haired director has been through hours of interviews already, but doesn't look it. Relaxed and slouching in a tweed coat, he looks at first glance more like an English professor than one of the foremost (and quirkiest) Irish directors working today. The rigors of a promotional tour aren't new to Jordan--he's weathered the gonzo publicity machines surrounding his more high-profile efforts, including 1992's The Crying Game, for which he won a best original screenplay Oscar, and Interview with the Vampire, which came out as the worldwide Brad Pitt craze was fast approaching...
Gore's role was to sell a mysterious elixir to the crowd. Somerby recalls he bought a frayed tweed suit and several bottles of "elixir" in preparation...
...September 11, Tweed Center...
...with arms outstretched and hands dug into the frozen ground, lay the bleached, mummified remains of a man. It was Mallory, his body almost perfectly preserved in the thin, dry air, a safety rope around his waist, and still partly clad in remnants of his tattered cotton, wool and tweed climbing clothes, the ragged collars stitched with markings G.L. MALLORY. He had apparently tumbled wildly down the slope, tried to arrest his descent with his hands, then died shortly thereafter--"still fighting, still gripping the rock to the end," says climber Jake Norton...