Word: knit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...water. But the early wet suits looked as awful as dry suits, only wetter. And they were black. Dye, it turned out, was death on foam neoprene; any injection of color considerably weakened the rubber. So did regular exposure to air. Finally the solution was found: a protective nylon knit fabric that would adhere to the neoprene and keep it durable whatever the color or weather...
Free Forms. Even less tied to traditional ways than Mategot, a few hardy pioneers have stopped creating designs for factories and begun making their own free-form wall hangings. They work directly with such out-of-the-way materials as jute, sisal and new synthetic yarns, which they knit, tie and wrap into works so offbeat that baffled customs officials sometimes confuse them with rugs...
...There is a fascination with snakeskins today," says Shoe Designer Beth Levine, whose all-python boots are doing nicely at $250 a pair. "It's a whole feeling for slithery things, from a crochet knit to a snake; it's textural and natural." For herself, she adds, "I can live my whole life without a snake." Fortunately for Fleming Joffe Ltd., biggest U.S. supplier of snakeskins, many women cannot. The company did a $1 million-plus trade in skins last year, with python the biggest seller (naturally black and white, the skins are often bleached out and dyed...
...Yoshikazu Maeda. 54, a Tokyo bank executive, remembers that day when "the family was more closely knit, living quarters were more cramped, and there was consideration." much He more says mutual sadly: personal "The whole pace of life seems to have speeded up. Human relationships seem to be getting colder." Moreover, the problem of caring for the elderly is growing, if only because there are so many more of them. Improvements in diet and medical care have increased life expectancy for men from only 50 years in 1945 to 69 years today...
...this supposition, now dated, was, even then a hollow one. "Black college graduates have always "returned home to take part in the struggle for black advancement. This has been a particularly strong tradition in Boston's small and closely-knit black community...