Word: needlework
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spend the years 1972-74 in a bathysphere can imagine the rest, and that is the trouble. Once the correspondences begin to fall into place,.watching the movie complete the pattern has all the excitement of watching somebody fill in the outlines on a piece of needlework. The Watergate references are the sole point of most of the shenanigans; yet the movie has nothing particular to say about Watergate-unless the trivialization itself is the message...
...presidential daughter. Susan Ford, 17, declines to alter her casual style. After classes, she changes from her skirt-and-socks school uniform into baggy white painters' pants with a Charlie Chaplin fit and an equally ill-fitting plaid shirt. Her third-floor world burgeons with plants and needlework (she made patchwork quilts of heirloom quality for special friends this Christmas) and her new hobby, photography, for which White House Photographer David Kennerly gives professional advice. She is cautioned against making demands on the domestic staff, so when her current steady, Gardner Britt, 18, a freshman at University of Virginia...
There is one trap of reputation for those rare artists who come to epitomize their age: when the society goes down, so do they. An extreme case in point was François Boucher. The son of a French needlework designer, he became the most successful French painter of the 18th century, the favorite of Louis XV and his mistress Madame de Pompadour. Born in 1703, Boucher lived through the climax of the ancien régime and died less than two decades before it did. "In him," wrote Jules and Edmond de Goncourt, in their great defense of rococo...
...elbow. Diet was carefully controlled and such foods as vanilla, bananas, pineapple, coffee and tea-all of which contain chemicals that might interfere with interpretations of physiological reactions-were forbidden. Boredom was relieved by TV, stereo, books and, according to a NASA press release, "a lot of needlework by the participants...
...eight-inch section of jejunum (the upper part of the small intestine) and to fashion it into the shape of a U (see diagram). Next he trained his surgical microscope, working at 20-to 40-power magnification, on the minuscule bile ducts. He exposed them, and with incredibly fine needlework sewed one branch of the U over them like a funnel. He sutured the other branch of the U into the upper part of the duodenum, about where nature intended bile...