Word: cottoning
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When they're not wearing cotton cargo pants, women are pairing light slip dresses with sandals...
...risks and casts a wide net for advice. He'll need all he can get, because when he finally breaks his policy silence, he'll have to make the case for evicting a party that might as well change its name to Dow 10,000. "This has been the cotton-candy decade," says Bush's chief economic adviser, Larry Lindsey, taste-testing a theme last week. "It's mostly spin, all sweet and no sweat. Yes, people are happy, but...we've let Social Security stagnate, Medicare fester and our national defenses deteriorate...
...upper-class face. The sexiest picture in this show is Two Girls in White Dresses, circa 1909-11. (It is actually one girl, his niece, painted twice, lying on an Alpine hillside.) Except for the faces, not an inch of skin is visible. They are completely swaddled in cotton and cashmere, but the agitation of the cloth into powerful folds and hollows, together with the passivity of the poses, gives the image a disconcerting sensuality--not striptease, but layer-tease...
...remarkably versatile substance. It wasn't the first plastic, however. Celluloid had been commercially available for decades as a substitute for tortoise-shell, horn, bone and other materials. But celluloid, which had developed a reputation as a cheap mimic of better traditional materials, was derived from chemically treated cotton and other cellulose-containing vegetable matter. Bakelite was lab-made through and through. It was 100% synthetic...
This was serious. I wasn't just tired with a headache. Rather, I felt like I would be able to breathe more easily if there were immense wads of cotton up my nose and water in my lungs. I was so tired that I slept through all my classes for three days...