Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saks Fifth Avenue display windows featured a new fabric shade-"good grey...
...kindly-faced man, with the tiny red rosette of the Legion of Honor in the lapel of his grey suit, nudged his way through the chancel, climbed up on the organ bench, stretched his legs, and began Bach's Prelude in C Major. As he wove the huge fabric of the fugue, never losing a single thread of it, his listeners understood why Marcel Dupré is considered one of the greatest living organists...
...nautically-minded TIME reader, noting that Joe owned a cruiser, suggested that "when you are on board you are sitting on a valuable source of material for some good fabric designs. Have you ever taken a second glance at mounted red algae? They're beautiful, and they are not limited to the old idea of nautical patterns...
...those of such established U.S. realists as Philip Evergood and Ben Shahn. But they are not enough to explain his disturbing power. Koerner's storytelling art is one of implication, and its very theatricalism serves to imply that the "real" world which man has made is equally a fabric of illusions...
Cocteau has cleverly managed to waken the body of the legend to 20th Century life without rousing its spirit from medieval slumbers. His rattling flivvers and gleaming bathrooms are woven into the fine fabric of the ancient Tristan and Iseult legend like bright new threads into a shadowy old tapestry...