Word: silk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that replaced homemade reed mats in many Vietnamese households has been converted so that it can use native reeds. A company that imported Virginia tobacco now uses domestic tobacco, grown by villagers who have learned how to cure it from the government Textile factories that replaced the centuries old silk industry in Vietnam with cheap cotton goods now use cotton imported from the north. The PRG's goal in industry is to reach the highest level of production possible without new capital investment; the rural areas have top priority, and only when that sector of the economy is stabilized will...
...Japanese prints of Perry's warships. In his cliffside home overlooking the Hudson River located near the town of Nyack, N.Y., Aronson's study is filled with hundreds of sketches for the show. Each one is intricately painted. Some, including half a dozen potential stage curtains, are silk-screened on cotton. Some are done on rice paper, but New York City's fire laws forbid their use in the theater...
...particular does not need this asinine counsel. As The Verdict and her earlier memoir The Gift Horse show, she has pursued life and love with fierce energy all of her 50 years. She is one of Germany's best-known actresses, a performer in 54 films, including Silk Stockings and Decision Before Dawn in Hollywood...
Marisa Berenson wore translucent chiffon, Lee Radziwill wore pleated red silk, and Naomi Sims wore a white dress with tightly wrapped top. But even their clothes were no match for some of the costumes in "American Women in Style," the new show that opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute last week. The main attractions of the exhibit, organized by Diana Vreeland, were the eloquently unfettered wardrobes of two great dancers. Isadora Duncan, a free-spirited sensation of La Belle Epoque, considered herself built along the lines of the Venus de Milo and often performed...
Designer Diane von Furstenberg offered a roll of paper towels imprinted with 250 lipstick kisses. Giorgio di Sant' Angela sent a 9-ft. hand-painted silk banner worth (he said) $20,000. The occasion: a "Fashion as Fantasy" exhibit held in Manhattan to raise money for Fountain House, a New York psychiatric rehabilitation center. Five hundred guests paid $50 each to attend. Topless Swimsuit Creator Rudi Gernreich offered two models decked out in bicycle parts. "In a machine age, people are drawn to machinery," explained Rudi, "and it is sensuous and sexy." Chacun a son gout...