AMENITIES There's a vest-pocket-size gym and a business center, but no pool (c'mon, this is L.A., isn't it?) or spa.
In the weeks before the Republican convention, Alfred A. Knopf, fresh from its merchandising triumph with Bill Clinton's "My Life," will release Nicholson Baker's incendiary vest-pocket-size novel, "Checkpoint," in which a politically ambidextrous protagonist (he hates both abortion and Dick Cheney) lays out a case for assassinating the president.
That evening striped tights, or spandex were seen on an alarming number of guests, as were Native American headdresses, sequined vests, boat-sized felt hats and the occasional fake fur boa illuminated from within by a neon glow.
And a sweater-vest style from the '70s is reworked into a tunic dress, designed to be worn with the buttons down the back or flipped to the front and left open as a super-size vest.
Take an orange vest, approximately 2-3 sizes bigger then you, something that fills out nice and stops at mid range, cut a v- neck down to the top of the middle of your chest and remove all medals, symbols, etc.
Koch owns Jesse James' gun, the gun that killed Jesse James, a historic Wells Fargo stagecoach, wagons, Wyatt Earp's vest, a restored full-size Western saloon and even erotica from an old brothel.
The first box contained toys for imaginary play: two fake mobile phones, a girl baby doll with clothes, a sword, a firemen's helmet, a child-size Zorro cape, and an adult-size golden glitter vest.
In a lavish Act II scene, men wear black tie with sparkling vests and top hats the size of the Washington Monument.
They had to shut us up and shut us down so that we could not even sit at a table with them and bargain about simple things like classroom size or bulletproof vests for everyone on the police force or letting a pilot just get a few extra hours sleep so he or she can do their job -- their $19,000 a year job.
