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Smart pawnbrokers spotted the trend a few years ago and set about changing their image. Manhattan's Kaskel's, which now calls itself a "loan broker," looks more like a high-fashion department store with its mink-draped mannequins and velvet-lined jewelry display cases. "We have customers who earn as much as $250,000 a year, and the majority earn more than $10,000," boasts Owner Richard Kaskel...
...stylized cynicism. By temperament and training, this is alien to the American actor, who almost invariably tries to humanize his role and to bridle the most outrageous farce with the halter of naturalistic plausibility. And Wycherley's characters cannot be played as people, since they are monsters in velvet and lace, transparencies of vice through which the playgoer is meant to view...
...theory, are all liable to exception. The layman in an academic setting is free to provide certain shock values. "He has no reason to hide his astonishment," afford the easy steadfastness of one who does not want or need anything from an institution, least of all those terrifying velvet handcuffs known as tenure." The layman in academia can avoid faculty status ladders and protocol. He remains free to experiment and innovate...
...Master. Hersey said the non-academic man in the academic world "has no reason to hide his astonishment at the inertias of a great University. He can afford the easy stead-fastness of one who does not want or need anything from the institution, least of all those terrifying velvet handcuffs known as tenure...
...crisp, clear air 33,000 ft. over Pennsylvania, United Airlines Pilot Dale Chapman blinked in disbelief. There, one moment, were the myriad lights of Manhattan winking in the distance like diamonds on a jeweler's velvet cloth. An instant later, there was only blackness. "The whole city of New York was missing," marveled Chapman. "It looked like the end of the world...