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Weekdays, the Pilgrims looked like any other Englishmen: wearing the rich browns or the Lincoln greens then popular in their homeland. Governor Bradford even had a red vest and William Brewster a violet coat. The traditional dour grays and blacks were principally for Sundays. Their observance of the gloomy Sunday, however, was a practice not without its perils. Since the Pilgrims believed that a baby born on a Sunday had been conceived on a Sunday, preachers thundered when a woman gave birth on a Sunday. One preacher stopped such harangues after his own wife gave birth to twins during...
...first time I saw Erich Segal was in the courtyard outside of Yale's Stiles College, where he is a Fellow. It was a passing view: he streaked by in track gear, wearing a wool cap and a blue plastic vest with orange reflecting panels...
...sometimes Nanette is amusing because it so caters to our voyeuristic impulses. A 1925 musical played in 1970 can't help revealing the bones of the genre. A lawyer struts around the stage, and his hands go first in his trouser pockets, then in his vest pockets, then on his hips. Ruby Keeler makes an entrance (the first time we see her, she is descending a long curved staircase). Every time something important is about to occur, the full chorus assembles on stage, if only to sing eight bars of "Peach on the Beach." You're overwhelmed by the force...
...drawn to certain types of shots. Unfortunately, from the look of Woodstock, everyone was drawn to the same simple events. No one bothered to film the stuff that one needs to edit a good sequence. For instance, to return to the Who, Roger Daltry wore his shimmering white fringe vest, a natural attraction to a cameraman; so everybody must have filmed him in close-up, because they liked the way the light played on that vest and his blonde hair...
Although Chavez does not recommend it, some of his customers have risked pinches or scratches by wearing pop-tops over their bare skin. "The first topless chick to try a vest," he says, "caught her right nipple in a ring. I think it looked groovy, but I can recognize the snags...