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...needlework techniques, studied and carried out by Chicago's many co-workers at a high level of technical skill-pieced or appliqued quilting, trapunto, flame stitch, crewelwork, embroidery with pearls and beads, stumpwork, petit point and even the intricate and demanding form of needlework with composite materials (silk floss, gold and silver thread, jewels) known in the 13th and 14th centuries as "English work," opus anglica-num. Each runner is fashioned from materials that are painstakingly appropriate to the woman being commemorated. For Sacagawea, Lewis and Clark's Shoshone guide and interpreter, hand-tanned deerskins are stitched together...
...curtains. Dr. Ronald Konopaski of San Francisco says that he has "tried to create an image similar to a beauty salon." The doctor's dental salon offers clients a rainbow-colored printed menu of services with fees. They can or der to taste - anything from a brush and floss ($5) to an examination with X rays and consultation ($55). In Oakland, Dr. Ernie Lavorini will gladly tattoo a butterfly or a flower on caps being fitted (there is an extra charge for the artwork). So far Dr. Craig Rosenberg of Huntington Beach, Calif., has been more timid...
...TRAVEL BOOK Paul Theroux describes one town that is so dull he bought dental floss to keep busy. Well, folks, get out your dental floss...
...late sixties, he was as much amused by the "flower punks" of the Summer of Love as he was by the contagious mediocrity which brought plastic furniture to the suburbs. Never one to take the world seriously, Zappa has long since moved to Montana and become a dental floss tycoon...
Meanwhile, more than half the people in this state will start this New Year fighting cavities without even resolving to "brush more often, and maybe, floss...