Word: satin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which are worn instead of the chasuble for nonEucharistic ceremonies such as marriages or baptisms, tended to have an allover, continuous design. Typical is the exaggeratedly baroque fruitings and blossomings of what appears, on an early 18th century brocade, to be the Garden of Eden, seen against a blue satin sky. But with chasubles, a different convention arose. This sprang from the tailors' way of seaming together strips of fabric, which were then reinforced with a decorative vertical band called an orphrey. Orphreys might be relatively simple-as on the Met's heavily restored 14th-15th century Spanish...
Within the last month in England re-releases of Mary Welle's "My Guy released in 1964 and Little Eva's Locomotion from roughly the same era each occupied places on the top ten. The Monday Blues's "knights in White Satin" was number one in Boston My favourite AM hat was a hybrid of The Breathless early period and vintage Free called "Go All the Way" sung by a group from Cleveland called Raspherries Meanwhile three powerful progressive artists Van Morrison Rod Stewart and the Band had each released new albums...
...distiller, will diversify its Four Roses blend and begin selling a "light blend" under the same name. The company will also have a new light brand called Galaxy. Schenley will introduce no fewer than six light variations of regular products, including J.W. Dant Premium Light, Schenley XL, and Red Satin. American Brands, taking a cue from makers of the fast-selling pop wines, is giving its products names that sound like rock groups: White Balloon and Honey Go Light...
...without child. It has a loose, comfortable style that was born of the peasant blouses still available in the bazaars of Europe. If that isn't enough to give the nonpregnant pause, two young Manhattan women have designed and are selling the Pregnancy Puff-an egg-shaped, beige satin pillow that ties on round the middle with pink and blue satin ribbons. It has just one function: worn under clothing, it makes a woman look pregnant...
...being lonely at a Navy officers' club in Seattle on Christmas Eve. She found twelve equally lonely officers. "We got suffer than 900 planks." The family moved to Los Angeles, where Dita helped exercise horses at an exclusive club. She remembers that Joan Crawford's horse Red Satin was part of the stable. Later, in Washington, the Davis family lived in high society, so she tells it, entertaining the Cordell Hulls (he was Secretary of State under F.D.R.) and Idaho Senator William Borah ("Mother was a terrific Republican"). Dita came out at a debutante ball at Washington...