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Dressed in a tweed jacket and a scally cap, Sutton reminisces in a Harvard Square cafe about the candidates and power-brokers he has known in his 50-odd years of politicking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Hidden Political Legend | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

Everywhere the irrepressible Randi goes, usually in a flowing tweed cape and a brown, broad-brimmed hat, bewildering events occur: spoons bend, watches stop, wallets disappear, pencils move mysteriously, minds are read. And everywhere, Randi's message is the same: the remarkable happenings are simply magic tricks, not psychic or out-of-this-world phenomena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: James Randi : Fighting Against Flimflam | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

...past Dunkin' Donuts' 46 varieties, past the topless temptresses of movie marquees, past the T-Shirt Express, past the half-hour photo store, past the mendicant * saxophone player on the corner. Decked out, some in black leather jackets, others in pink high-tops and bobby-sox, a jaunty tweed cap here, a brightly colored scarf there, they jaywalk across 48th Street in twos and threes, dodging yellow taxis. Quick! Into an alley, up a metal staircase and through an entrance marked STAGE DOOR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Children of Apartheid Meet Broadway | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

THIS year's celebrity-in-tweed has emerged in the unlikely shape of Paul Kennedy, a Yale history professor, who is likely to supplant Alan Bloom as superstar critic-at-large...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: The Twilight's Last Gleaming | 2/13/1988 | See Source »

JACKSON. High fashion, garnished with a pocket square. Hart gets the booby prize for his rumpled-tweed look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pre-Primary Report | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

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