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...technical skill-pieced or appliqued quilting, trapunto, flame stitch, crewelwork, embroidery with pearls and beads, stumpwork, petit point and even the intricate and demanding form of needlework with composite materials (silk floss, gold and silver thread, jewels) known in the 13th and 14th centuries as "English work," opus anglica-num. Each runner is fashioned from materials that are painstakingly appropriate to the woman being commemorated. For Sacagawea, Lewis and Clark's Shoshone guide and interpreter, hand-tanned deerskins are stitched together in traditional

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Obsessive Feminist Pantheon | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...license plate gives a little away: NUM 1. This is not wish fulfillment on a rear bumper, though. The owner of this Mercedes rates. In a time of phenomenal success for the record business (698.2 million albums, singles and tapes were sold for $3.5 billion in 1977), Al Coury, president, head honcho and chief dervish of Robert Stigwood's RSO Records, has taken a penthouse on top of the sales curve, even as his family stays snug in their San Fernando Valley tract house. "Yeah, I live in the same house I did when I was making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Man Who Sells the Sizzle | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...ventures, "the moment has come to admit that only tarot number one honestly depicts what I have succeeded in being: a juggler, or conjurer, who arranges on a stand at a fair a certain number of objects and, shifting them, connecting them, inter changing them, achieves a certain num ber of effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Card Tricks | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

Tour: JVH, num...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Air Talk: Attendez, S'il Vous Pla | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

Pilote: Québec sol, JVH au hangar numéro trois. Puis-je circuler? Répondez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Air Talk: Attendez, S'il Vous Pla | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

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