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...over the abbreviated accounts of the talks that were in the tightly controlled press. Rumors flew of an impending coup, of an imminent shakeup of the South Vietnamese army. A report that the government had placed a rush order for 2,500,000 yards of bunting with a Saigon cloth merchant sparked speculation that the rumored cease-fire might really be at hand...
...around the now bare table were staring at him. Retaining his composure after a slight telltale blush, he sliced down the seam and severed his connection with his meal, swallowed a mouthful of 99 per cent cotton, licked his chops, smacked his lips, wiped his mouth with the remaining cloth, sat back comfortably, and let out a satisfied burp. He asked to be excused and left to go to the Health Services. He had his stomach pumped and missed the Brown game...
...Outstanding Homemaker ('53), Mother of the Year ('55) and Nation's Ideal Housewife ('57) by forever curling her own hair and pressing her husband's suits. The curlers and the traveling iron have now been packed away, as have many of the plain Republican cloth coats that Nixon made so much of in his famous 1952 Checkers speech. With the spotlight constantly trained on her, the First Lady has succumbed at last to the world of mink and designer labels...
...slowness of inspection, parallel to the immense deliberation which Braque himself brought to the act of painting. Such works are all about explicitness: witness a masterpiece like The Pink Tablecloth, 1938, with its assembly of waterjug, book, lemons and glass enjoying their mutual silvery transparency on a pale amoebic cloth, linked together by a shaved white line that both dictates the flow of the shapes and suggests the cold light of a winter morning...
Hunger. As the Navajos came increasingly in contact with roving traders, from whom they first acquired flannel-like red bayeta cloth in the 1830s, they began to weave more complex textiles known as "chief pattern blankets." To their traditional stripes they added squares, diamonds and zigzags. They worked proudly and boldly. "Even in early plain stripe blankets," say Berlant and Kahlenberg, "Navajo weaving had an aggressiveness that set it apart from its Pueblo model. [These blankets] have a force and color that is full and exuberant but always under control...