Word: rags
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pens, such as those carried out by the West German Federal Archives last week. Here, too, experience and a keen eye for detail may prove sufficient to detect deceit. Benjamin notes that in the West parchment was used exclusively until about the year 1150. Next came two types of rag paper. One was laid paper, formed by being stretched across wires that left visible lines spaced about an inch apart. It was in common use until about 1800. The other was wove paper, in which the fibers can be seen by the trained eye. It was used consistently after...
Which are you, Nastassia Kinski? The child or the woman? The day beast or the dream angel? The European actress or the Hollywood star? The high-fashion doll or the rag doll? The new beauty or a woman older than...
...mural on a tenement wall, an eagle clutching a hypo above the legend in red letters: COME FLY WITH ME FOOL! Just before crossing the Williamsburg Bridge, the Captain spots a young white couple crouching together in the front seat of a Mercedes. The man throws a bloody rag out the window. "They just couldn't wait to get home before shooting up," he tells Snowdrop. She smiles back, still glowing in her speedball womb. -By James Wilde
...PSYCHOLOGICAL ramifications of Vietnam are a long way from being exhausted as a mine for literary insight, and a new play at the Next Move shows that the vein is still rich. Medal of Honor Rag provides a personal insight of one man's reaction to his experiences in Vietnam, and through him, reveals the psychological trauma which afflicts many veterans of that war even today...
While Cole may lack insight into the deeper causes and effects of the Vietnam War and its ramifications. Medal of Honor Rag intriguingly explores one aspect of the monster. This endlessly resurfacing theme makes it clear that the beast is still gnawing at America's innards...