Word: vesting
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Waiters hovering. Sun through tall windows. Ficus trees in corners of room. Jody Powell in vest. Reporters off the street could get used to this, jokes Sperling, Questions come. Carter answers all. Does not reveal much new. What's new is the feeling, the hope. So much nicer to meet in respect. Reporters reflect concerns, prejudices of publications. Oklahoma asks about Sunbelt. Washington Post asks about secret documents. Detroit asks about Humphrey-Hawkins full employment bill. New York asks if Carter might help out in newspaper strike...
...different; he cannot eat a bite of food. Ever since doctors removed his diseased stomach and part of his intestines five years ago, he has been fed almost entirely by vein, and seemed destined to spend his remaining years in hospitals. Now, outfitted with a newly designed life-giving vest, Jason is living at home and thriving...
...polyester mesh vest, developed by Dr. Stanley Dudrick and his team at the University of Texas, has two breast pockets that hold plastic bags filled with Jason's food-a solution of amino acids, water, sugar, salt, potassium, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, vitamins and trace elements. A battery-powered miniature pump zippered into another vest pocket propels the solution through a tube implanted in Jason's skin midway between his rib cage and navel. The tube runs up his chest to the base of his neck, where it threads into a vein leading to the superior vena cava...
...have to excuse me if I didn't get some of the quotes right, but what can you say about a guy who wears a contour sheet and a down vest to his own toga party...
...decided that its neither the theory nor the pretensions that must go, but the book. It's simply not funny. Ward tries to use words he finds intrinsically funny like "airsick bag," "acne," and "sweater vest." This comic strategy can work with great success, as with Esquire's annual lists of funny words. Ward, unfortunately, chooses the wrong words...