Word: linens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ADAMS HOUSE bathroom I have two towels; not Gordon Linen, but "B rough of Camden." They come from Camden, a suburb north of London, and they were given to me by a lifeguard there. I first saw him standing beside the pool flexing his arms. He was wearing long white pants and a yellow sleeveless shirt. I wanted to laugh, but instead I asked him where I could put my towel. He inspected it; it was small and tatty. "Is this all you have?" he asked me in accented English...
Womanhouse interiors were not designed to please. "These are very clear images of woman's situation expressed as works of art," said Judy Chicago, the program's cofounder. "In essence you walk into female reality and are forced to identify with women." Thus the linen closet showed a manikin housewife trapped amidst the laundry, and the "Womb Room" consisted of a thicket of fibers that drooped, in Chicago's words, "like an exhausted uterus." In the flesh-colored kitchen, fried eggs made from sponge were stuck to the walls and ceiling, and some of them were transmuted...
...round of events begins when old Alison Tisbourne dies, leaving her entire Ulster linen fortune to a beautiful granddaughter named Gracie. That is too bad for everyone because Gracie, while she is the stupidest of her clan, is also the most grasping. She is engaged to Ludwig Leferrier, an idealistic young American who refuses to fight in Viet Nam and faces prosecution if he goes home. In love, Ludwig comes to prize his fiancee's "nerve and calm ignorance." Indeed, she is the best literary creation in the book, scot-free of altruistic impulse, a blithe compendium of pinchy...
...legally a non-profit agency, was founded in 1957 and is now made up of 13 or so individual divisions: birthday cakes, blotters, catering, charter flights, Europe by car, guided tours, linen, moving, painting, publishing, refrigerators, rings and union news...
...peels? The Sway of the Grand Saloon is huge, solid, stately, absurdly lavish, its noble dust jacket encrusted with gilt. Its whorled endpapers are the work of Niebelungian trolls who never see the sun. Its paper, far from being recycled, might be made by the supplier of Cunard table linen...