Word: emblems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quite-it's the emblem of the Paris cooking school she helps run, L'Ecole des Trois Gourmandes...
...sign up as many subscribers as possible. At month's end, it will start distributing 100,000 copies to another group of potential purchasers. Then it will follow up with a big promotion campaign, including salesmen decked out in green blazers adorned with the paper's emblem-a blazing...
Outlines of the figure are buried in a subdued brownish-black background, yet gilt buttons streak like dim lights to shape his presence. An elbow clad in rich brocade is flattened almost like a chivalric emblem of elegance, while the face gazes out with insolent indifference...
...stately, rich in emblem and the work...
...Advantages. All available facts about footbinding are presented by Howard Levy, an eminent U.S. sinologue, in the first history of the subject printed in the West. The bound foot, says Levy, was both a means of hobbling women and an emblem of conspicuous leisure. Only a man of means, the Chinese thought, could afford a wife so badly crippled that she could hardly walk. Yet the principal appeal of the practice may come as a shock to Westerners. Levy states flatly that footbinding survived, despite its anatomical and emotional horrors, because the Chinese for more than a thousand years were...