Word: quilting
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...felt ill and threw up; then he received a phone call to head to his grandfather's house. "I knew even before I got there," he says. His grandfather Jorge has a makeshift shrine to Miguel in what was once the young man's bedroom. In it is a quilt the Marines presented to Miguel's family at Camp Pendleton as a tribute to him. "My wife cries all the time now," says the 65-year-old. "It's breaking her heart what they're saying about those Marines." Jorge and his wife don't follow the news much anymore...
...sugar each week. The benefits of dialing back the sugary drinks would accrue not just to the kids but also to the beverage makers. Even before the Clinton announcement, 43 states had enacted or introduced legislation to improve school nutrition, raising the specter of a crazy quilt of local rules the companies would have to learn and meet. One uniform standard would be in everyone's interest...
...Some of the images on Cuteoverload.com are exactly what you'd expect from a site with that name: a pile of kittens, a bunny nuzzling a blade of grass, a puppy sleeping on a quilt. A million Hallmark calendars have been sold on the enduring appeal of such images; that Cuteoverload.com could acquire 65,000 readers and hundreds of comments per day by designing a pleasant blog around them makes total sense...
...most disturbing scene was “The Best Daddy,” where Lisa (Masha O. Godina ’08) tries to figure out whether her 13th birthday present from her father (Daniel J. Rinehart ’09), which is covered in a bulky patchwork quilt, is in fact alive or dead. Godina displayed an intense wide-eyed innocence that skillfully avoided caricature. Somehow, the horror of contemplating whether or not Lisa’s sister is dead, and whether her father killed her, did not spoil the tenderness and light-heartedness present in the rest...
...cummings’ poetry, and the words “Semper Fidelis” (“always faithful”), are superimposed upon the maps. Yet these prints are only a part of Stinetorf’s family’s larger effort to make a quilt and tapestry incorporating these images. Although such collaborative work is not common, it is regarded as an integral aspect of the project and thus permitted...