Word: layering
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...hordes of "wedding-industry" salesmen by placing all their arrangements in the hands of a "marriage coordinator," such as Mrs. Gertrude Doran, 54, of Los Angeles. This year Mrs. Doran ("I can do as many as four weddings a day") is pushing two new gimmicks for her clients: a layer of frozen wedding cake for presentation to the bride and groom as a first-wedding-anniversary present, and a tape-recorded You Are There commentary by a mellifluous announcer who describes the garb, step, and emotional tone of the whole wedding party. Mrs. Doran advises parents to keep the recording...
Fancier Than Scarlett's. To go with the smashable fashions are numerous accessories, the newest and most practical using something called Curon, a thin, transparent, foam-plastic layer that is laminated to wool or worsted jersey as an interlining. Also among space-saving accessories: smashable turbans, many studded with creaseproof beads and fringe; wash-and-wear embroidered lingerie, fancier by far than Scarlett's; Italian nylon drip-dry raincoats, which actually may be more wrinkle than rainproof; tiny, collapsible umbrellas that look like pistols and shoot up almost as quickly...
...January 1959 workmen began laying the foundation stones, at first without mortar, to test their fit to the new site. After corrections for the contours of the old site and for the distortions caused by centuries of settling, the walls slowly rose, set this time in a thin layer of mortar. When they reached the high narrow windows, everything fitted perfectly...
...whole vision down before it shreds apart in his mind. He starts with black, white and grey, which he regards as the colors of memory. When the first sketch is finished, it can be reworked indefinitely. Gradually the work takes on depth, as if it had been built up layer upon layer...
...drink with the family. There, unspoken, he finds sympathy and even love, but hurriedly offered in the passageway lest they all sbe discovered. Almost more than any recent writing about South Africa, the story gives a glimpse of the fundamental decency that Paton insists is there below the official layer of hate...