Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Secret Smile. It was only the beginning of otherworldliness. Before the day ended, Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi -Manson's opposite in a carefully tailored gray suit and vest, possessor of an enviable record of successful prosecutions-had attributed to the vagueness of a Beatles' song part of Manson's motive in directing the murders. In an outline of his case, delivered to the jury of seven men and five women in an understated manner that belied its content, Bugliosi elaborated on the Beatles' theme...
...parties when we would be happier with Scotch or gin; we don bell-bottoms when we would rather be in tweeds; we jump into affairs when we would rather be at home in bed-asleep. The visible result often is a compromise: the staid Wall Street lawyer, in vest, rep tie and cuffed trousers in the daytime, who turns Bloomingdale hippie in the evening, donning tie-dyed pants and tank top to weed the garden...
...Well," said a boy in a hippie vest. "The Creation takes longer...
...Yeah, but he's been up there for an hour an a half." In a matter of minutes, Stewart and Robbie were quieted, Karen learned what Chaos meant, and the boy in the vest resumed his baroque sketches in the margins of his notebook...
Finally, after an hour in the hot seat, Kranz yielded to Lunney and his "black team." Calm and unrumpled in the white vest he wears on duty, Kranz told his controllers: "Look, we've got a fresh team here. Let's get off the consoles and let them take over. They might come up with some different ideas, and we'll go back and look at the data and analyze it and see if we can find anything that might help...