After months of tailoring himself as the seamless heir to the Giuliani era, Michael R. Bloomberg faces his first big decision, one that is likely to be shaped, in large part, by a man who came to prominence under Mayor David N. Dinkins.
Seduced at an early age by the imperial promise of those magic syllables, Ellowen Deeowen, he went to great lengths to tailor himself to fit his adopted city, paring down his hilariously unwieldy name to Saladin Chamcha, only to find the slimline version makes him a laughing stock - chamcha means 'toady' - when he returned to his native Bombay.
However, the charges of lefty partisanship seemed misguided; the movie we made criticizes Barack Obama for tailoring himself a State Senate district, Nancy Pelosi for opposing redistricting reform in California, the Democratic party for using black voters to "sandbag" white Democratic districts in the South, and opens with a clip of Ronald Reagan decrying Democratic gerrymanders!
Just as he held friends like Amis at a certain remove — presenting a view of himself tailored to their sensibilities — Larkin fashioned his own separate reality, observing and framing it from behind a lens.
Mr. Shabazz himself favored tailored suits and Italian shoes in those days.
The Covent Garden production, almost as venerable as the tenor himself, has been tailored to accommodate those famously frail knees.
Starting at age 15, he worked for two years in oil refineries in Aruba and Curaçao before returning to Anguilla to teach himself tailoring.
Tracy Morgan, who often explores and explodes black stereotypes in his comedy, said he did "a little ad-libbing" to tailor Paul to himself, but that otherwise the role is identical to the one Mr. Ferrell was offered.
But the mayor, a former Wall Streeter himself, also delivered lines tailored to his audience.
