Word: chinee
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...summer of '97 is the season for romance. They're offering up delicate feminine frocks and fluid wide-legged pants that caress the body like a breeze. Pale tones, cool watercolors and neutrals are popping up all over in soft materials such as light wools, chiffon, crepe de chine and jersey. For the more daring, there's the citrus palette, with all its variations on lime green, orange and yellow. And for the downright bold, sheer fabrics are moving into daywear--although they're usually doubled in thickness, lined or worn with a body suit so that the nonexhibitionist majority...
...should we give up? After all, we are intelligent types and should be judged on our gray matter, not our hot pink bustiers. It's legitimate to focus on more cerebral things and perhaps a bit impractical to trek off to the Science Center in a fluff of crepede-chine and sequins. But being smart means knowing a lot About a lot. And if you don't know Barneys from a purple dinosaur, you're ignoring something that matters...
...well-known incident of such racial scapegoating occurred in 1982, when Vincent Chine, a Chinese-American, was murdered by a white auto worker who thought he was Japanese. Asian-Americans are tired of being mistrusted, accused and sometimes physically injured for "stealing" jobs that supposedly belong to American workers...
Another honoree who overcame racial prejudices was Dr. Chine-Shiung Wu, a nuclear physicist from Columbia University who came to the United States from China in 1936 Wu said. "A scientist's life is really wonderful...
...colleté. At stores like I. Magnin's in San Francisco and Chicago and Bloomingdale's in New York, which has eight departments (including one named In Flight) selling jumpsuitery, they come in soft, billowy silks and satins, polished cotton and gabardine, velvet and crepe de Chine in art deco prints. Head-turning hues include purple, burgundy, fuchsia, aubergine, white and that ol' black magic...