Word: tweeds
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...bottom line." The pressure to create something new, however, is intensified by the pressure to move the huge corporate machine. Even John Galliano and Jean Paul Gaultier, both radical creative catalysts, have had to conform to the corporate spirit of our times. In Galliano's show for Dior, streamlined tweed suits and pared-down chiffon evening dresses in pale shades of gray and pink replaced his signature theatrics...
...looks from kids' clothing companies: Britain's Mini Boden bodenusa.com and crewcuts jcrew.com from the designers of J. Crew. Mini Boden's Big Print T shirts, left, come in three different styles for boys ($22). And crewcuts' ballet flats ($68), right, come in metallic gold or pink tweed...
STATE DEPARTMENT A man in a tweed jacket walked into a heavily guarded office in 1998 and, in full view of two secretaries, looked through a pouch full of classified documents, put many of them in his briefcase and left...
...self-assessment, Spillane - whose The Long Wait sold three million copies in a single week, and whose worldwide total is in the 140-million range - was also far more blue-collar than tweed-jacket. He wasn't an "author," he said, rejecting the mustiness of the word; he was a "writer." He did his job for money, not recognition by his peers (which came his way late in life). He claimed he banged out I, the Jury in nine days, to which the literary establishment would say, "Really? It took that long?" And he claimed he didn't have "readers...
...fixation with reality television, from middle-American earnestness to the current Bush administration. But what makes this movie really entertaining is the secret admiration it has for all of the values it pokes fun at; especially its love for the greedy American stereotype it eviscerates, epitomized by Martin Tweed (Hugh Grant), the Simon Cowell/Ryan Seacrest-hybrid host of “American Dreamz,” who is one of the movie’s highlights.Dennis Quaid plays President Stanton, a dead-ringer for George W. Bush, who wears a constant expression of befuddlement on his face and offers pearls...