Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Dylan walked on, about thirty minutes into the show, the energy in the Civic Center surged. Wearing a black vest and a dark, flower-adorned sombrero, Dylan acknowledged the crowd's standing ovation with a small wave. He lit into "When I Paint My Masterpiece," an ironic song, loosely based on the scene in Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night where Dick Diver wanders around Rome and decides he will never be a great writer...
...school of animation. In less than fifteen seconds, blobs expand into cocktail parties and a pudgy businessman is isolated; he sprouts into the air, his legs become the World Trade Towers with New York at his feet, his cigar turns into innumerable smokestacks, and neon signs spring from his vest: WORK! PROSPERITY! BIG BUSINESS...
...More mechanically, Ford must confine himself to briskly traveling motorcades when moving within a city. At least for a time, the slow ride in an open car, as in his recent campaigning in New Hampshire, should be avoided. The protective vest for outdoor appearances, which he wore there, is a good idea, however uncomfortable it might be. For indoor appearances, a public now accustomed to metal detectors and inspection of handbags would not object to making such practices routine before entering a hall in which Ford is present...
...work like Tango (circa 1919), the dress suit and the white vest-rendered with the utmost economy as a patch of gesso on the smooth cherry-wood - take on a sleek, concise elegance far removed from the naive woodcarvings of country America that provoked Nadelman's hand. He was an exquisite connoisseur of gesture, and his finest works-particularly the suite of woodcarvings to which Tango belongs-stem from his delight in performance: in music halls or burlesques, at plays, piano recitals or even tea dances...
...irked that Lynette Fromme's troubles with her .45-cal. automatic pistol received such instructively graphic attention that any future .45-cal. assassin would never make the same mistake. CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid questions his network's decision to report on President Ford's bulletproof vest and thereby provide what he sees as valuable information to an assassin. Says Sevareid: "People do not have a constitutional right to know every detail...