Word: knitting
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...clerk at CitySports reported two shoplifters. They were described as two black males. One wearing a black down jacket, knit cap and black Nike sneakers. The other was wearing a gray down jacket, a black and yellow knit cap, blue jeans and black sneakers...
...both of them to an argument by a British anthropologist that 150 is the maximum number of people whom anyone can really know intimately enough to bond with. Bunches no bigger than that are the best incubators for "contagious messages," Gladwell writes, leaping from there to explain how tight-knit book-discussion clubs talked up the novel Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood until it hit the best-seller list...
...January 1974 the columnist Joseph Alsop declared, "I have begun to think that the '70s are the very worst years since the history of life began on earth..." The decade seemed to be a convergence of ghastly fashions (ultrasuedes, double-knit bellbottoms and medallions, blow-dry haircuts), exotic self-esteem indulgences (est, Gestalt, bioenergetics, Arica, Reichian therapy, Krishna consciousness) and assorted bad ideas (disco, Erich von Daniken's cosmology) with such larger historical dysfunctions as double-digit inflation, riots on the gas lines, Watergate and the losing of the Vietnam...
...Individuals have come to sew and knit on their own, but the social side of crafts also adds to the thread and yarn sceneoa virtual knitting and sewing subculture. Rumors floated about a group called iStitch and Bitchi in Leverett. Donna R. Winston i01 admits to taking part in an inebriated knitting bee. iKnitting is relaxing as is drinking,i she explains about the combination event. iIive also thought of knitting something and then going out wearing it.i Although this fusion of wool and alcohol only happened once, Donna plans on forming a more regular group of knitters that would...
...Painful enough to think of all that history pratfalling like Chevy Chase; excruciating to remember the fashions (the collars and ties, the ultrasuedes, the double knit bell-bottoms and medallions, the comic blow-dry haircuts) and the charlatanism of the self-esteem indulgences (est, gestalt, bioenergetics, Krishna Consciousness...