Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...field in one place or another since 1755. There was one where Washington Square is today; there was one where the New York Public Library now stands. Since 1869 the cemetery for the indigent has been on Hart Island, 101 acres of goldenrod, Queen Anne's lace, sumac, broom sedge, oak and willow. At one time the island was also home to a prison. In another time there was a drug rehabilitation center here. Neither is in operation any more, and the red brick buildings now resemble what one imagines would be left after the bomb. Creepers embellish...
...parts of Germany. With their tight torsos and broad, billowing skirts, the Kamali dresses ($96) are sure to turn heads. To go with her clothes, the designer has come up with perhaps the most eccentric item of the season: pigskin high-heel shoes encased in vulcanized rubber that lace up over the ankles ($45). Kamali may give new life to the old rock-'n'-roll exhortation from...
...jazz. The paper shapes themselves start as regular forms: spoked wheels, geometric grids, or a sheet perforated with spaced holes. Most of them are spares, leftovers from earlier "multiple" projects. But because there is so much small-scale chance involved in the casting and drying, they come out lace-winged and irregular; and Shields compounds their variations, sometimes with breathtaking elegance...
...PURPOSE PLOTLINE provides a virtual directory of comic strategies and styles. The segments which work best draw on the longtime Python staple of pure, straightforward silliness. This impulse motivates Gilliam, as a crusty general, to set up a lace tablecloth in an embattled World War I trench. Viewers are cheerfully bid welcome "to the Middle of the Film, where we will play a game of... Find the Fish" Fish, particularly goldfish, remain a dominant theme throughout, prompting various subtitled admonishments from the "management" and offering ironic social commentary from a strategically positioned aquarium...
...fund is a bequest from the late Alice Cunningham Lace...