Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program's immense visual appeal lies in costumes that can hardly be matched anywhere else. By and large, they are replicas of what was worn by emperors and ordinary folk during the Ming dynasty (A.D. 1368-1644). Silk is the predominant fabric; even beggars wear it, but with patches. Monarchs always wear yellow gowns embroidered with dragons; women of the higher classes, long skirts concealing their feet. Anyone without a headdress is presumed to be in great danger-and, in fact, may already have been beaten...
...clothes provided for the children are of a rough cotton fabric and they rarely fit the child who wears them. Oftentimes, there aren't enough clothes to go around for all the residents in the ward...
Makers claim that they have increased the comfort of the new poromerics by doing without the fabric interlayers used to back the first generation of artificial leathers. Those interlayers made the material thick and stiff. Consumers shod in Du Font's product inspired the wisecrack, "Corfam shoes always look brand new; they always feel brand...
...Zeppelin surpassed its 1972 record of $1,700 by racking up $2,500 in damages-destroying paintings, soiling walls, submerging four stereos in bathtubs, and reportedly holding motorcycle races in a corridor. But, like Joe Cocker, who ruined a carpet last spring by stomping his birthday cake into the fabric, the musicians smoothed things over by paying the tab immediately. "Most of these groups just don't worry about damages," sighs Hyatt Manager Lou Wilson. "If I could draw 18,000 people at $7 a ticket, maybe I wouldn't either...
...plunged into its second century. the first century had been memorable: Crimson editors had gone on to become presidents, Pulitzer Prize-winners, Marxist economists, business magnates. The paper's politics had wavered from the far left to the right, but a thread of liberalism seemed inextricably woven into the fabric of the organization... And it was somehow fitting that on the 100th anniversary of the first edition of The Crimson, 450 former Crimson editors congregated on Cambridge for a Centennial dinner...