Word: satin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beadworks," located at 23 Church St., features more than 3000 different kinds of beads from over 25 countries of the world. The store, which bills itself as a "new shopping concept," also sells clasps, wires, earrings, chains, leather and satin cords and even books on how to string it all together...
...with tulips and pomegranates and rocked to sleep in hazelnut cradles plated in silver and sprinkled with emeralds and diamonds. When they went to war, they donned conical helmets decorated with floral patterns and studded with turquoise and rubies, fought with ivory-inlaid muskets and swords and slept in satin-lined field tents. Even their horses pranced around in gold-plated headgear and golden stirrups...
...long black leather overcoat looked around nervously as he passed by, worried that a hair might be out of place. Guys stood in the bathroom with their cream-colored, curtain-fabric jackets, satin shirts, blow-dried hair, staring at themselves in the mirror like junior high kids prepping for the final plunge onto the dance floor. But these guys were in their fifties...
...echo whatever, in Lautrec's paintings or in his recorded remarks, of the political ferment that pervaded the intellectual and street life of Paris in the 1890s. And in terms of sexual politics, the seedy, overheated rooms of Lautrec's brothels are not much different from the satin bower in which, rather more than a century before, Boucher painted the rosy buttocks of the royal mistress Miss O'Murphy. It's just that they smell more real, even as Lautrec takes his sardonic delight in aestheticizing them in a different way, as emblems of what the age called decadence...
...help a New York City charity collecting secondhand coats for the poor, Mayor David Dinkins donated an elegant cashmere number (estimated replacement value: $1,400). Maybe Dan Quayle could give his golf clubs to the homeless. David Duke could throw in some white satin sheets...