Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...celebrated conversion last fall, flew in to Atlanta and called him "one of my good Christian friends." Sometime Comedian Dick Gregory visited, and so did Kennedy Assassination Theorist Mark Lane. Fellow Pornographer Al Goldstein, publisher of Screw magazine, arrived in a chauffeured black limousine and a bulletproof vest. Said he: "Maybe it was somebody down here who thought Larry was making fun of them...
...host who had called a party to which most of the essential guests would not come. Israel immediately accepted the invitation to the Cairo conference.* Syria, the P.L.O. and Lebanon, almost as immediately, said no, and the Soviets soon after responded in kind. Playing it close to the vest, Jordan's King Hussein said that he would go to Cairo if all other invited parties went; he added that he would go to Tripoli if every Arab state, including Egypt, showed...
...hard to imagine that the boxer in the publicity photo with the Everlast trunks, coiled body, and baleful glare is the same Ronnie DiNicola sitting in the Lowell House dining room wearing a brown herringbone vest and smiling impishly...
Audiences begin cheering Annie Hall with the first scene, when Annie and Alvy meet after a tennis game (she wearing men's brown pants, an unpressed white shirt, a black vest, and a ridiculously long polka-dot tie, an outfit Diane might have found on the floor of her own closet). She starts to compliment him on his tennis, gets lost in one of her enchanted word-forests, then subsides into pretty embarrassment: "Oh, God, Annie ... Well, oh, well ..." And then the murmur of defeat: "La-de-dah, la-de-dah." Heartbreaking. Does anyone doubt that young women across...
...count shows 51 Georgians on the White House staff, 18 at the Office of Management and Budget and another 100 scattered throughout the Executive Branch. Observes a Carter campaign associate of the Georgians: "They are a breed unto themselves, close-knit, playing all their cards close to the vest." At week's end, the closest card of all was still being played by Jimmy Carter, who had made no known move to resolve his most pressing personnel-and personal-problem: what to do about Friend Bert...