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Word: silk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Margaux's kid sister's music teacher, soliciting her influence to gain a hearing for his electronic compositions. Nor is his attack a brutish lunge out of the dark. The rape is strictly high fashion - a handsome bedroom setting, the victim tied prettily with silk scarves while he sodomizes her, the whole busi ness staged and photographed with stylish prurience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Marinade | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...despair along Savile Row. Last week, however, he had taken to wearing jackets and trousers that actually matched. Foreign Secretary James Callaghan, who is normally neat but not resplendent, took his front-bench seat in the House of Commons in an impeccable double-breasted suit and rich gray silk tie suitable for an audience with the Queen. There was good reason for the sartorial preening: after the second ballot of Labor Party members was counted, Callaghan and Foot were the remaining contenders in the race for the party leadership-and with it, the move to 10 Downing Street as resigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Suiting Up for 10 Downing Street | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

Evonne Goolagong continued her smooth-as-silk routine last night as she easily served and vollied her way into the semifinals of the Virginia Slims Tournament, downing Kerry Reid 6-3, 6-2, at B.U.'s Walter Brown Arena...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Goolagong, Casals Set for Showdown In Va. Slims' Semis | 3/26/1976 | See Source »

Peik Larsen, teaching fellow in VES, regards the ventilation problem as symptomatic of the disunited status of graphics at Harvard, Ideally, graphics--lithography, silk-screening, and etching--should be united under one professor and organized into a course, he said yesterday...

Author: By Gizela M. Gonzalez, | Title: Poor Ventilation of Workshop Spurs Silk-Screeners Concern | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...down Lansdowne Street, shreiking and twirling and smashing into hard brick walls. Their noise intrudes in this damp, silent alley; the warehouses know no human sound or stink from five p.m. to nine in the morning. The men wail deep and coo softly, as if speaking through thin silk stockings...

Author: By R.e. Liebmann, | Title: The Half-hearted Hustle | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

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