Word: quilted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through. Sometimes I never get through." He is accompanied in his polite progression through the thrashing mass by hostile remarks about the unions, which the riders blame for much of their discomfort. The conductor passes below full-color images of joy and transformation: a naked woman wrapped in a quilt leaning against the knee of a man stroking her hair, a brilliantly lighted couple kissing forever...
...account of the filming of a bedroom scene: "My lover, who was in full uniform, crawled in after me. I put a thick blanket between us, and announced that we were ready to shoot." As the cameras moved in for a closeup, the director shouted: "Pull the quilt over your breast . . . Artem, don't touch her . . . Galina, your shoulder is bare again .. . Stop! Stop! His shirt is unbuttoned ... His chest is all hairy! Shave it immediately. We're making a film for the laboring masses, not for sex maniacs...
...sentimental, richly American story: a Texas widow during the Depression takes up cotton farming to keep her homestead and family together. Blue Highways, the bestselling account of a 13,000-mile trip down back roads, made a reassuring case that the American fabric still looks like a charming country quilt. American architecture has been pursuing a rather whimsical rediscovery of its home-grown past: flimsy roadside commercial buildings are regarded as significant folk design, for instance, and turn-of-the-century housing styles are now being absorbed into the postmodernist aesthetic. When Conservative Columnist George Will calls Rock...
...campuses from Maui to Massachusetts, more than 45,000 seniors are going back to school this summer. They are studying everything from quasars to Hawaiian quilt-making, Plato to paleobiology. Some are traveling to archaeological sites in Israel; others are bird watching in Virginia. They may wake up stiff after sleeping on cots and feel even less comfortable about communal bathrooms. Like other college students, they undoubtedly grouse about cafeteria food. But there is one big difference between these seniors and the ones who donned caps and gowns a month or so ago: their average...
This is not at all a message that the new Democrats want to send. They want to espouse less Government, not more. Protests Neoliberal Wirth: "The fact is, we already have an industrial policy. We already spend $300 billion in subsidies to industry, but it's a crazy quilt of patchwork policies. The Republicans say get rid of it. We say that's absurd. We say don't get rid of it, rationalize...