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...Expat-as-Victim" article: I know that in the immigration authority's hierarchy of gaijinhood, Caucasians have a far easier time than, say, Filipino "Japayukis," Russian exotic dancers or South American laborers. My point is that foreignness is like a magical garment from a folktale, one with the sewn-in curse that its wearers cannot remove themselves. Only social consent will allow my child to feel at home in his or her Asian mother-country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Dream Drain | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...temple's chandeliers and yellow walls replace the dim lights and drab walls of the hallways. The chandeliers illuminate small red, orange and blue banners, spattered with sewn-in mirrors and paintings of Krishna performing miracles and embracing Radha, his lover. Stained-glass windows cover one of the smaller walls of the rectangular room and provide a colorful backdrop for a light blue throne surrounded by white chrysanthemums. On the throne, sitting on a red cushion, is a picture of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the spiritual master and founder of ISKCON. He faces an orange curtain...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: For the Love of God: Krishna in Boston | 3/9/1978 | See Source »

...x428Fy had switched to slotless Van Heusen Collarite shirts--with sewn-in stays! You should, too! These micro-thin stays can't get lost, keep your collar flat, and launder with your shirt! Specify Collarite next time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOVE IN THE LAUNDRY | 11/2/1957 | See Source »

...career, but all its trappings, to begin life anew in Acapulco, Mexico, where her new (fourth) husband, ex-Bandleader Ted Stauffer, runs a nightclub. Among the items on the block: a collection of fairy tales inscribed "to the beauty from the beast," a faded black lace evening dress with sewn-in falsies, 75 pairs of shoes, 15 fur coats and wraps, two mink stoles (one white, one black), a marshmallow-size emerald ring, four wedding rings-although only three previous husbands can be accounted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: On the Block | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...dish towels made of old flour bags. And they were selling at a furious clip (30,000 in ten shopping days). Sears, Roebuck & Co. was also advertising them in its new spring catalogue (and sales were brisk). In groceries, housewives were buying flour in 25-lb. bags that had sewn-in drawstrings; the buyer had only to unstitch a seam and she had a gaily printed cotton apron. Across the U.S., thousands of women, following instructions in special pattern books, were turning similar dress-printed bags into clothes, curtains, tablecloths, napkins, quilts and slipcovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COTTON: A Double Life | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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