Word: fur
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...designer produced winter collections clearly intended for the monied private customer who can afford to come in out of the cold-or stay in it -wearing the best. Fabrics for the look of "sportive de luxe," as Women's Wear Daily approvingly named it, were lavish and inimitable. Fur (including that of the endangered jaguar and snow leopard) flew everywhere...
...strobe flash to delineate textures. Images of a drooling, grimacing baby singe themselves into your retina. A lady's face--swathed in layers of chiffon scarves, wrapped by a gauze turban and netted veil, huge drops of shiny pearls hanging from her ears, and a fluffy fur stole across her chest--peers out over a double chin somehow eerily disembodied...
...Most of those operations, he claimed, were aimed at detecting just who in the Government was leaking official secrets to newsmen, or at protecting the Government against antiwar demonstrators, radical bomb-throwers and black extremists. Nixon is still worried, he said, that the Wa tergate investigations will "lead to fur ther compromise of sensitive national security information...
...young when we married, and we just grew in different ways," says Solti today. Whatever the reason, Solti was soon known as the possessor of a wandering eye. All the old jokes about the casting couch were dragged out. There was gossip that he gave his paramours a white fur coat-and that there was an exorbitant number of white-coated women around London...
Home. She is as wet as if she had fur, like an animal. She strips shaking and laughing still. Then she walks into the bathroom. There are tracks on the floor. The towel is raindrenched and muddy. He has been here before...