Word: silk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd of more than 600, whisked off from the airport in a 15-car motorcade to the official guest house, which housed the Japanese Governors-General in Japan's prewar days as ruler of Formosa. Kishi presented Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek with two embroidered silk comforter covers (a standard Japanese wedding gift), received in turn from the Gimo two grass bed mats and a decorative ship model fashioned from pale pink seashells. The old enemies got along quite well...
...decor was salvaged from the original structure: the gold-and-white great portal of the main Rubens room (see cut). A stream of proud Münchners flooded every gallery in the building. They noted such improvements as the overhead skylights and lighting, and walls tapestried with ivory silk. Hanging against them with vibrant life were 800 paintings, the world-famous masterpieces back home again: Dürer's Four Apostles, Altdorfer's cosmic Battle of Alexander, Rubens' dramatic Battle of the Amazons, Rembrandt's eloquent Descent from the Cross, El Greco's ominous Despoiling...
...handlers laid out fresh clothes as Fats mopped his face and clambered out of his tan silk suit (he owns 51 such rigs). The band got a quick dressing-down: "You guys ain't playin' wuth a cotton picker's wages-a real crummy beat." Then, turning to reporters, Fats philosophized about his wearying one-night stands: "Gold all the way, but man, they get old." Fats's gold standards are high: he estimates that he will make $600,000 to $700,000 this year, spend $60,000 on a house in New Orleans...
...bluntly told by the first recording company she went to that she could not sing. Nevertheless, she got singing engagements in U.S. Army camps, picked up a smattering of English, and went on the nightclub circuit. There Photographer Tateyuki Nakamura spotted her, persuaded her to pose in black silk stockings and little else. The photograph, when it appeared in a magazine, was enough to start the Michiko boom...
...painter, Mi Fei kept his best work for his friends' appreciation alone, and even then never allowed them to touch the silk for fear it would become soiled. His painting pointed to a new direction. Originating a pointillist style of ink-splash dots (still known as "Mi-dots"), he produced in paintings like Auspicious Pines in the Spring Mountains China's first impressionist landscape. Its curious sugarloaf mountains are drawn in loosely applied brush strokes and washes, trees are carefully controlled blobs of ink. The human scale is merely suggested with the bare-bones outline of a lone...