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...already cut her lady-bug dress in half to make a shirt and skirt. She sews the cotton filler into the hem of the skirt and folds the fabric over, causing it to flare out sharply. Using her thick grey thread, she bunches up the material to create a curtain-like, drappage look...
...bathrooms. He said that the room was not particularly dirty and that he saw the cockroaches in the middle of the day. When he flushed one cockroach down the toilet four or five roaches crawled—fast—out of the shower drain and onto the curtain. Whitfield also mentioned that he and another worker chased three cockroaches “jumping down the stairs” in K entryway a few days after. “There’s no way you’re going to tell me that any deans’, professors?...
...founding, Swarovski has established itself as the largest supplier of high-end crystals to the fashion and design industries, adding sparkle to jewelry and evening bags as well as a growing number of interior-design products, from expected items such as chandeliers and vases to more original pieces like curtain tassels. Crystals are essentially sand and water and chemical coloring agents fired and then cut and polished by machine, so a factory visit would seem harmless...
...thunderheads on the horizon opened like a curtain, and a speedboat came rocketing towards us. Casta?o had sent the boat. Thoughtfully, he'd also provided rain slickers for us. We bounded across the choppy water, into the seam of black clouds. The journey lasted an hour, with lightning spearing around us. Finally, we sighted land. I don't know if it was Panama or Colombia; it was all jungle. But the launch pulled up at a dock and a farmhouse materialized in the mist. I could make out the silhouettes of towering mercenaries who looked like they had been outfitted...
...mentality that seeks to ban images of women typically wants also to control and restrict women's place in public life. At a recent concert in the town of Sari, the female members of Iran's only non-government orchestra were asked to play from behind a black curtain. They have been disinvited from an upcoming concert in northwestern Iran altogether...