Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sweet young thing, innocent ward of the neighborhood preacher, and then shows up the preacher's God-stricken ranting and moaning and raving as plain lechery. His ambition as a rock star thwarted, he joins the genga trade--shots of blitz-eyed traders wearing shades and a leopard skin vest he twirls two pistols in parody--the Western hero turned outcase. One the run, a hunted man, his record becomes a super hit; a doomed man, he reaps a martyr's glory--at this point the movie gets boring--he dodges the cops a while longer and then gets shot...
Washington tried to play down any sense of urgency about the Secretary's trip. His visits to Israel and Egypt were merely, in the polysyllabism of State Department Spokesman George S. Vest, "a supporting, catalytic adjunct" to the Geneva talks. But a Kissinger aide described the perils of personal diplomacy in words that were more germane: "The style and inclination of the man is to go and do it himself. But once you have sent the biggest aspidistra of them all, you are out of aspidistras...
...broadcasting to the U.S.S.R. the entire text of Gulag in Russian, and, later, extracts will be beamed in 17 other Soviet languages. Moreover, the 606-page paperback Russian-language edition, printed in Paris on onionskin paper, and only %½ in. thick, could pass unnoticed through Soviet customs in the vest pockets of Western travelers...
Firmly against too many liberties where dress is concerned, Burger has ordered Clerk Rodak to draw up a new, more detailed dress code. Rodak reports: "It will say that male lawyers should wear a dark suit, with a vest if possible, a conservative tie and black shoes." Women will be discouraged from wearing sweaters or pants. "The dress," says one Justice, "should be appropriate to a serious undertaking such as a court proceeding...
...interlocking motives of the Widmerpools and the two Americans suggest that Powell is heading toward some conclusion about sex, death and power. By the end of Kings it has not emerged clearly. Will his finale be an elegiac, dying fall? A vest-pocket apocalypse, with history hounding his characters as relentlessly as mortality? Hard to say. But he leaves his characters frozen in poses and gestures that have enough teasing significance to keep readers ruminating until the final volume comes...