Word: fabrice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Made from a lightweight knit fabric similar to that used in swimsuits, Pan-T-Boot is actually an extraheavy pair of panty hose with soles and heels attached. It was conceived by Suzanne Garfield, 33, daughter of a California millionaire drugchain owner, after she found that her fabric boots wrinkled and sagged around her ankles while she was dancing. With her brother Gil, 37, she whacked away at a pair of tights and some oversized boots, spliced the two with pins and clips and, after a week of adjustment here and there, sewed them together. The creation was snapped...
...instance of evolution toward precision there are three cases of devolution into sloppiness . . . Grammar and syntax can teach one how to make words behave, not just correctly, but interestingly, tellingly, gracefully, efficiently, variously." SEX. "The community has a stake in one's interpersonal relations, because it is a fabric woven of such relations. The adolescent must not be allowed to argue that he can do what he wants to with his own body. His body is not his alone, since he owes something to the phylogeny that has endowed it and to the society that has arranged...
MOST people, us included, would rather watch lesbians romp across the screen than homosexuals. (That is, if forced to the choice.) That should point toward a number of features in the fabric of the collective American sexual unconscious. Is there less potential for exploiting men's bodies than women's bodies? Are female bodies aesthetically more interesting (arresting, arousing, subtle) than male bodies, or has male dominion fixed that as a conditioned response? Is Warhol putting us on, or-in some insane, frenetic, and stupendous way-is he really on to something basic about the ways in which we look...
...refugees. Even then, one wonders about the people. Squatting in their refugee camps with little gainful employment, thrown into an urban environment they can hardly understand or cope with, many have lost their grip on their traditions and values. The land will mend, but what of the social fabric? In some places it is already tattered beyond repair, and the longer those millions of refugees stay cooped up in their tin sheds, the more the fabric will unravel...
...massive and repeated air strikes by B-52's, the creation of free-fire zones (in which anything that moves is regarded as fair game), and the chemical defoliation of millions of acres of South Vietnamese and Laotian jungles and croplands, have caused massive disruptions in the social fabric of South east Asia...