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...luck. Carlo met his rommmate later that first night when he came back from the movie and found a pudgy kid with fuzzy hair and a New York accent sitting in his room playing poker with the people from down the hall. The kid was wearing a blue corduroy vest and a T-shirt from his neighborhood volunteer fire department, and he was drunk enough to be smoking a very cheap cigar without realizing it was burning a hole in the vest. The kid's name was Larry and he dad gone to a Catholic high school in Queens without...
...heavy toll: either you learned to like beer and Monday Night football or you perished from sheer loneliness. So Carlo sipped his Budweiser and learned to hate Cosell, but all the time he wanted to be cruising up the social ladder after some debutante, wearing topsiders and down vest and talking like a Cabot. The problem was, he stood in the middle of the battleground...
...such intrusions. Within reason, Carter seems almost to welcome them. The White House operation is remarkably relaxed. Hamilton Jordan regularly dresses as if he were about to spend the afternoon quail hunting: sports shirt open at the neck, khaki work pants, heavy-duty boots. He, Jody Powell (shirtsleeves and vest), Zbigniew Brzezinski (baggy pants, Dagwood haircut) and others of the inner circle move calmly and freely in and out of the President's presence. They are respectful, at ease and only mildly deferential. The President sets this tone. He does not seem to have gone through a period...
...assurance--more than that, in fact, as across her upturned nose she peers out at the world through haughtily squinting eyes. (She looks as if she were reluctantly holding her breath to avoid taking in a disagreeable smell.) Top this off in the final version with a frowsy, faded vest, a hair ribbon out of place on her gangly frame, and a ragged tutu, and the arrogance of her carriage becomes all the more laughable...
...swiftly freeze. The best bottom-line investment (for about $18) is a thermal -meaning it traps the air-underwear with an inner lining of moisture-absorbent cotton topped with wool, cotton and nylon. On top the urban survivor wears a flannel shirt, a cashmere sweater or a goose-down vest, a tweed jacket, a muffler, mittens (which allow fingers to warm each other) and a heavy overcoat. On the assumption that the 8:30 a.m. train to town will be a late, late show, the well-booted suburbanite may be wise to invest in the commuter's equivalent...