Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just what the figures are doing; because of the wonders Dickinson performs with perspective, the figures seem to be lying down, standing, and floating under water all at once. The sea-green light, which seems to come from nowhere, falls not on the figures but on the folds of cloth, on a hand, on a death mask. In the end the painting turns out to be not realism at all, but a superb arrangement of low-keyed color and form...
...little theological curiosity) he wrote about, asked about, or collected facts about-vacuum jars, the "humors" produced by yellow fever, machines for producing static electricity (fatal to some rats), systems of government and ventilation, the geology of Pennsylvania, the weather, the making of glass, the weaving of cloth, and the proper way to build a fort. When he was not advertising muskets for sale he was procuring them for his Pennsylvania militia, drawing up the order of companies and ordering maneuvers on the next fair day after rain...
...Textile Workers Union has argued to the U.S. Tariff Commission that tariff walls ought to be raised against foreign cloth. The United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers International has organized a "Buy American" campaign aimed at retailers and the public, distributes handbills before some stores that sell chiefly imported headgear. Last year the 1,200-member local of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union in Roanoke, Va. struck the Kenrose Manufacturing Co. Inc., which had just opened a new plant in Ireland. The union won a company agreement to set aside part of its Irish profits to compensate workers...
...Ethel. "She has an elephant's memory." When Kennedy's political activities began to mount, Jackie worried "because he never would eat lunch, and kept getting thinner." One day her butler turned up in Jack's office with a hamper, expertly laid out a gleaming white cloth on his desk, then served a savory hot lunch in a baby's hot plate, "the kind you eat to the bottom and find a bunny rabbit." Impressed, Jack began to invite friends in for lunch, and the daily hamper load grew to six portions served on Sevres china...
...steak, and followed him, wringing their hands, as he walked past the pictures. Schubert, who believes that it is necessary to "police modernists," disapproved of Guignard's skyscraper cross, spear-bearing soldiers ("creatures from Mars") and the bloodied imprint of Christ's visage on Veronica's cloth ("a beheaded mule"). Then he delivered his decision: "I will tell the cardinal that these paintings can be consecrated...