Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confront the larger question of the effect of conglomerates, and whether or not Ling, whatever his intentions, was more of a force for good or ill in America. It is hard not to conclude that Ling and overreaching conglomerators like him have put a severe strain on the fabric of public trust in big business. The giddy ride up at LTV was a good trip for many shareholders and bankers; but when Ling fell, he left a trail of tottering companies, broken careers and distraught investors. Jimmy Ling himself has salvaged several million dollars out of a fortune that once...
...winner of the 1972 Yale Younger Poets Award, is perhaps the first American poet to deal successfully with the Vietnam War; he is the first to capture with candor, humor, freshness of insight, a careful eye for detail, and an exceptionally attentive ear for language the thoroughly human fabric of a war from which most of us are physically and, too often, emotionally far removed. A former base guard and highway patrolman in Vietnam, Casey witnessed little of the action from which heroic yarns are spun. Rather, he saw in combat and heard expressed the neuroses of belligerent officers...
STEPHEN BURROWS. At 28, Burrows is considered by many of his peers the most creative designer-black or white -working today. Three years ago, he initiated a fashion trend that is still going strong: brilliantly colored, close-fitting dresses and pants put together like mosaics from patches of fabric or leather. He has also created popular body-hugging jersey dresses with rippling hems of uneven length. A native of Newark, Burrows attended the Philadelphia Museum College of Art, then took a job decorating department store windows. Switching to Manhattan's avant-garde O Boutique, he began designing...
...case of few other performers, that his conception was rarely in any way arbitrary. And perhaps even more praiseworthy was Mr. Berman's exceptional sensitivity to texture. Listening with score in hand, I was able to hear virtually every note functioning both harmonically and linearly within the fabric; and this aural perspicuity, once established, did not lapse even in the most delicate passages. Treated with such sensitive understanding, the works for piano solo presented Monday evening became intimate chamber music in the best sense...
...Lucille Rivers, the Julia Child of sewing, is seen daily on 100 local stations throughout the country, and draws an amazing 20,000 letters a week. Textilers are advertising as never before, wooing home sewers on the air and in print. Department stores, hurt by the proliferation of fabric stores, are pushing their own pins and needles with fashion contests and sew-ins accompanied by rock bands to attract teenagers. Singer dropped its sewing classes some years ago and began to retail stereos as well as sewing machines to pump up profits. Now the company has reintroduced its classes, with...