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...from Seoul, Korea, to the Isle of Man-have sent to the White House a remarkable assortment of gifts to mark the Bicentennial in personal, imaginative and warmly affectionate ways. More than 700 presents have arrived, ranging from expensive objets d'art crafted by professionals to projects lovingly sewn, knitted, hammered or stuck together by grade-school classes. The White House has made no attempt to encourage, or even publicize this totally spontaneous patriotic happening...
...nonnatural colors. Some new items: a burgundy-colored opossum jacket selling briskly in Manhattan stores for $600; Designer Calvin Klein's $3,000 celery-green kimono-style mink jacket at top department stores around the country. Especially popular are inexpensive jackets priced as low as $70, made of sewn-to-gether "plates"-fragments of paws, underbellies, and other less-than-prime skins...
...finished product is stored. It takes about fifteen minutes for a twenty-foot log to be stripped of its bark, clamped into the peeling machine, and transformed into a few hundred feet of "veneer," one-quarter to one-eighth of an inch thick. The veneer is baked, tested, sewn together if it breaks, doused with glue, and stamped in one of five thirty-foot high presses, the biggest of which was "Made in Oregon." Official colonialism may be ten years dead, but suspicions of economic imperialism still linger: the tour guide was French, as were the heads of the shipping...
...polished for 40 years, and there are things that can't be said without a rough edge that he has lost. (It is a tribute to Gill's mastery of New Yorker style that the seams don't show when part of an obituary published in the magazine is sewn into the text...
...sound seemed orderly and neatly stitched: "Sewing machine music in other words," says Kipnis. If the Baroque revival continues today with greater force than ever, the reason is that Kipnis, 44, and others like him have finally proved that the Baroque contains some of the most affecting hand-sewn works in all music...