Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea was inspired by the cards used on Jacquard looms to determine the designs in cloth. Said she: "The analytical engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves...
Jackson is a man of the cloth cut on the bias...
...truck springs. Some day, Kuralt vows, he will get around to a piece that Bleckman wants to do, about dogs that ride in the backs of pickup trucks. As it turned out, the man with the banner just missed being a story. He had painted the 10-ft. cloth to honor his wife's birthday, and waited to wave as she drove past in her pickup truck. She got there while Bleckman was positioning his camera. "One more minute," Bleckman moaned, "and we would have...
...latest work, this fatal thread becomes the whole cloth, as Tuchman explores the nature of governmental folly and dissects some choice examples: the Renaissance papacy, 18th century England, the 20th century U.S. Folly, as Tuchman defines it, is not simply incompetence or tyranny or hubris, but rather "the pursuit of policy contrary to self-interest." She requires that the policy was perceived as folly in its own time, that a sensible alternative was available, and that the policy nonetheless was carried out by a group over more than one political lifetime. She makes one exception to that last criterion...
Ronald Reagan's godly fervor has been building during his three White House years, and there are moments now when he seems to be more a man of the cloth than a man of politics. He unabashedly tells people he is giving his remaining years to the Lord. Not only is Billy Graham still hovering around the presidency, but electronic soul savers like Jerry Falwell can often be found in the back corridors of the White House...