Word: deerskin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discover and promote is Georgia Michaud, 27. Michaud's designs, many using hand-dyed hospital gauze, are simple and versatile: for example, a pimento handkerchief-style dress that can go to the beach in the morning and the disco at night. Linda Somers, 33, works in chamois and deerskin. Her clothes are expensive: her black deerskin tiered skirt costs $230, her chamois bathing suit $50 and chamois beach cover...
...itch to travel can be summarily scratched, the hunger for acquisition is not so easily appeased. No need to parody the King Ranch; the cynic can start small. A shrewd shopper may buy an entire ten-acre island in Deerskin Lake, Wis., for $115,000. For a bit more, the Bahamas' entire Whale Cay, complete with mansion and matching village can be acquired: 650 acres, 20 minutes by plane from downtown Nassau, seven white-sand beaches, and all priced to sell at $3,500,000. Is the purchaser partial to antiques? He can live in one (when...
According to the legends, he once held back a flood by placing an icon on the beach and declaring that the waters would not go past it. Another time he thwarted a forest fire by similar means. He lived in a cave, wore a deerskin cassock and slept on a wooden bench with bricks for his pillow. As a missionary, he defended the Aleuts against the traders who exploited them. He ran a school and orphanage for the natives, among whom-even in his own lifetime-he was popularly regarded as a saint. Last week the Orthodox Church in America...