Word: cloth
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...revamping that sofa - but they are big enough to make pillows, sew a skirt, or even cover the seats on a set of dining-room chairs. Attention fabric lovers on a budget: this is one time you'll enjoy cutting your coat (or napkins or lampshades) to suit your cloth...
Except for that brief period when J.Lo wore a table cloth to the Grammys and the cognoscenti kept talking about the greatness of celebrating a “real lady” with “real curves,” American culture has been sexualizing women who look as if they have been victims of marasmus for the duration of my culturally aware existence. As the public gets progressively larger, Nicole Ritchie gets smaller and, in turn, more famous. It boggles the mind. Lately, however, pint-sized celebrities and models who do cocaine on the front page...
...bedtime and eating routines—can a university produce the new progressive ideas that put it at the forefront of its goal to move society forward. Could it be that the civil rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War campaign of the 1970s are cut from the same cloth as the late night pizza run and the surprisingly-alcoholic Scorpion Bowl?For the sake of humanity, let’s hope not. Late-night thinking may have produced the keg-stand and the Taco Bell ad that entices us with all the “crunchy, gooey, melty stuff?...
...Khaki's Back Sick of denim? Try Nantucket-style khaki from Tommy Hilfiger's 20th-anniversary show, above. At BCBG, Max Azria cut the common cloth into a chic blouse...
...many cases, people didn't wait for the army. Thousands of volunteers headed into the mountains, carrying shovels, pickaxes and iron rods to dig for survivors. Down in the main cities, well-wishers donated tents, blankets, food and even cloth for burial shrouds. Among the first responders were militant Islamic groups, who seized on the catastrophe to blame Musharraf's alliance with the U.S. in the war on terrorism for incurring Allah's wrath. In Chehla Bandi village, members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an outlawed group sympathetic to al-Qaeda, cooked food, helped bury the dead and shoveled through...