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Word: rags (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face it," he shrugs, "we were rag merchants." In soft goods, his tough and able boys from Brooklyn simply did not have the savvy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Everybody Loves a Bargain | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

...worn rag on a shoestring...

Author: By Sidney M. Goldfarb, | Title: Kelley Leaves Tanner's Cafe | 4/21/1962 | See Source »

...nine-room apartment on Park Avenue is filled with items and ideas that could furnish a museum twice its size. He designed his own V'Soske area rug, has mixed Louis XV and XVI, 17th century English, :8th century Genoese and Venetian, Chinese tea paper, Portuguese rag rug. In Pahlmann's favorite manner, one small bedroom is tented with cotton in blue, red and gold stripes. The library has a door, concealed by bookshelves, that leads directly into this bedroom. The master bedroom, whose ceiling is overlaid with the Chinese tea paper, has a bedspread made from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Living It Up | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

...splashes and splotches, drippings and oily rag montages of contemporary art are commonly explained by their producers as deep self-expression of their innermost being--a goal they gain largely from the works of Vincent van Gogh. But self-expression has sadly declined since the 1880's and van Gogh...

Author: By Michael S. Gruen, | Title: Vincent van Gogh | 4/9/1962 | See Source »

...estate falls partly to Viridiana, partly to Jorge, the uncle's practical, unprincipled, illegitimate son. Jorge works hard to make his half of the hacienda a paying proposition. Viridiana turns her half into a refuge for the rag, tag and bobtail of the province-beggars, footpads, lepers, trulls. While Jorge and his hired men work, Viridiana and her rabble pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Orare Est La bora re? | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

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