Word: burlaped
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...Chappaquiddick cookout with him. They confirmed to Judge Boyle that they had helped Teddy try to rescue Miss Kopechne shortly after the car submerged. Gargan told of diving into the water and trying to open the car doors. The car's two left doors, scratched and wrapped in burlap, were brought to the courthouse, presumably because they might bear evidence of the attempts to open them or indicate why such efforts had failed...
...were busy inventing the world's first "happenings." Soon Oldenburg was staging happenings too, and got married to a pretty artists' model, Pat Muschinski. The world of objects-food, toys, bric-a-brac-blazed all around him ia neighborhood stores. Claes started to reproduce them in burlap or muslin dipped in plaster and painted with all the romantic energy of Abstract Expressionism. "I wanted to extend color to three-dimensioned form," he says, "to make paint tangible and edible...
...outside the old location sneaked through the blackened windows and ruined effective lighting techniques. And to complicate lighting even further, there was no money for a lighting board--lights could only be turned off and on with no control over their intensity. for seats the theatre had only 22 burlap-covered tables which could hold about ninety people...
...this: "The old dame piked for the chigrel nook/ For gorms for her ball belljeemer;/ The gorms had shied, the nook was strung,/ And the ball belljeemer had neemer."* Then there were the code names for nonch (not-nice) subjects. To go to bed with a girl was to burlap her, because one day in the 1890s someone walked into the general store, found no clerk, checked the storeroom and found him making love to a young lady on a pile of sacks. The word caught on, although it got competition from ricky-chow, an onomatopoeic description of the twanging...
...have gone one step further in trying to be novel and have designed menus for clients on every conceivable material: wood, leather, plastic, burlap, suede, velvet, etc. The most unique was a menu for a medical convention-printed on the back of a large mustard plaster...