Word: silk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Downstairs at the Fogg, on the first floor, the Print Room is displaying photographs by Boston artist Peter Jones and contemporary lithographs, silk-screens and offset prints--including Claes Oldenburg's satirical "Art and Technology...
...centavo" ($12.50) turns a copper coin into a quarter-while the customer clutches it. "Chop-chop cups," little changed from the days of ancient Egypt, produce spheres from plum to orange size. "Spooky, the spirit handkerchief makes a ghost wander around under an empty little blanket of silk...
...serious Martha Mitchell touched up her Directoire coiffure and faced the cameras wearing green silk and diamonds. Following her successful talkshow debut on Washington's Panorama last April, Martha was putting in a week as co-host of New York WCBS-TV morning klatsch, The Pat Collins Show. Often staying up until 4 a.m. in her Manhattan apartment to do her homework on guests that included David Halberstam, Gloria Steinem and Washington Post Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Martha allowed no inhibitions to mar her technique. Slipping into her favorite role of dumbbelle at King Richard...
Three Skulls. Inside the throne room, the King sat cross-legged on the heavily gilded wooden throne, which is embellished with the images of lions and thunderbolts. He was surrounded by 13 silk brocaded cushions. On a covered table in front of him rested the seven royal gems, which the Bhutanese believe are essential to ensure the strength, health and benevolence of their rulers...
...auspicious moment decreed by the astrologers, the King draped the royal five-colored scarf of Bhutan's Kings over his shoulders in the presence of the country's chief lama, the Jey Khempo. No other hands than theirs are ever allowed to touch the sacred silk. In an earlier ceremony, the King had already been given the Bhutanese crown, a silver-and-silk hat embroidered with three skulls and topped by the head of a raven, which is supposed to protect him from harm throughout his reign...