Word: patchworked
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...idea for museum fashions occurred to Jenny Bell in January when she heard that the Brooklyn Museum was having a housecleaning and went to have a look. She returned home with a 56-year-old embroidered Egyptian silk scarf and an 81-year-old American patchwork quilt. With scissors, thread and a bit of black velvet trimming for the quilt, two handsome evening skirts emerged. A few more finds and Jenny Bell had enough to sell to Saks Fifth Avenue. Mindful of her 13 successful years as a Seventh Avenue designer, Saks bought the lot at first sight. Displayed...
Thus, even after the current crisis subsides, no patchwork solution is likely to long maintain an international monetary system based on the weakened dollar. The U.S. obviously needs to strengthen its currency, but how can it do so? There are many courses of action open to the Nixon Administration, but several have their own drawbacks...
...Jonathan Wild works well. An improvised illustrated lecture on the famous escape of Jack Sheppard from Newgate, given by Jack himself, is brilliant. The gyrating, record-dispensing rock star who sings a "ballad" about Jack is painful, and stands as an excellent example of the limits of such a patchwork approach to comedy...
...come a long way since Ben Franklin preached thrift and New Englanders saved everything from string to scraps of cloth for patchwork quilts. In frugal foreign eyes, 20th century Americans are stupendous wasters: a people so rich that they think no more of tearing down 30-year-old skyscrapers than of tossing beer cans out car windows. Now a turnabout seems at hand. Goaded to recycle the nation's mounting garbage, individuals as well as industries have spotted new charms in old discards-cans, bottles, light bulbs. Thousands of Americans are enjoying an effort that bears the acronymic description...
...biggest welfare departments in the country in Los Angeles County. He has the doubtful guidance of the county welfare regulations, which he dutifully keeps just outside his office. They make a pile exactly 5 ft. 2 in. high. "If something isn't done soon," he says, "the whole idiotic patchwork will fall of its own weight. It's a disaster. At all levels of state and Federal Government, it's disgraceful that we have no master plan to direct this monumental spending...