Word: feathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shatter violently around her. She dreamed of joining her husband in America, but she did not try to learn his Western ways. Though he had bought her a big brass bed, she slept on rugs on the floor except when he was home. When he sent her a feather duster, she put it in a vase and displayed it in the best of her house's four rooms...
...living standards drop further. De la Madrid's aim is to show that belt-tightening will affect the rich as well as the poor. "What's fair is fair," explains a P.R.I, 'politician. "We cannot have fat-cat officials taking advantage of these conditions to feather their own nests." De la Madrid has also made clear that he will do as much as possible to protect government programs that aid the peasantry, the poorest element of Mexican society...
...stage reduced to one endless stretch of carpet-portions of which move up and down throughout-the inhabitants of this world stalk about in clothes ranging from a blood-red kimono to assorted feather boas and beaver caps. Their manners are peculiar, but their props and other accoutrements seem designed to inspire total familiarity...
...politics, the four-term state congressman rode the wave of carefully arranged labor and business endorsements. Slightly unkempt and a failed public speaker, Blanchard is a 40-year-old throwback to Democrats of the past. With a crucial role in the federal government's Chrysler bailout as the single feather in his cap, Blanchard has promised massive public works projects, '60-style...
...outlaw balloon of sinister black-silken hue" as she sits crocheting in a gazebo. Sister Malvinia escapes the toils of Victorian family life in her own way: she makes a career as an actress and is courted by a singularly repulsive Mark Twain. Octavia marries a closet sadist and feather-boa fetishist. Constance Philippa runs away on her wedding night, leaving in her bed a dressmaker's dummy with which her unknowing husband consummates the marriage. Fleeing west, Constance disguises herself so persuasively as the brave and manly Philippe Fox that she is appointed Assistant Deputy to the United...