The final possibility is that BP can resurrect its previous plan, and buy out AAR, probably as part of a wider tie-up with Rosneft or perhaps Gazprom.
Wide ties, ugly cars, "Crocodile Rock"?
The Bicentennial, wide ties and cassette tapes.
"Apparently," Mr. Yassky added, "the original draft also prohibited wide ties.
We sold pleated pants, double-breasted suits, and wide ties," Bashford told the San Francisco Chronicle, in 2006.
Also seen are minor revivals of wide ties, two-tone shoes and the double-breasted shawl-collared waistcoat.
The things he hates more than anything are wide ties, boxy suits, and dress shirts that balloon at the back.
There are images from the 1970s of Carson in wide ties and loud plaids and colorful three-piece suits with odd piping.
Black-and-white photographs from the day the House opened in 1971 show a bygone era: mobs of smiling Gabrovians jamming the square outside the building, then a spanking new Modernist box with a metal statue of Don Quixote in front, where apparatchiks wearing plaid leisure suits, wide ties and fake smiles greeted Todor Zhivkov, Bulgaria's strongman leader.
"The Poseidon Adventure" may be a sublimely campy shipwreck, and the cop shows of the '70s may look now like gamy, cynical showcases for wide ties and retrograde social attitudes, but our ability to make jokes about and out of them would be spoiled if they had treated themselves like jokes in the first place.
