Word: silk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year's team maintains the standard. The Walton gang includes the likes of Dave Meyers, a rangy shooting threat from outside; Marques Johnson, a strong, aggressive freshman forward; Tommy Curtis, a bandy-legged spark plug and ball handler; and Keith ("Silk") Wilkes, a high-scoring forward who may be the second-best college player in the nation. As usual, the bench is overloaded with reserves who could start for most other teams...
...change lies in France's exquisite fabrics-luxuriant silk, crepe de chine, shantung, georgette, satin. These are meticulously cut and joined, often on the diagonal introduced in the 1920s by Madeleine Vionnet -who is inactive but still alert at 97. The "bias cut" makes clothes drape sexily against the body. Since the favored fabrics of 1974 are gossamer-thin and always unlined, they need, even demand ample length to prevent skirts from being unintentionally hoisted at the slightest breeze. The result is a calf-length skirt that is wider, freer and not quite as long as the ill-fated...
...current show at Manhattan's Asia House is, in effect, a tribute to Cleveland and its director, the eminent connoisseur of Chinese art Dr. Sherman Lee. Entitled The Colors of Ink, it is a selection of classical Chinese black-to-white paintings on silk and paper lent from Cleveland's collection and dating from the 10th century, when the colored paintings of the T'ang dynasty were superseded by a new monochromatic style, to the 18th century. One could not hope for a more succinct introduction to what one of the artists represented on the walls, Tung...
...least mark found its place in a (to us) bewildering set of classifications, each with a name: lutestring stroke, olive (pit) stroke, spring-silkworm-spitting-silk stroke; hanging-creeper dots, rat-foot dots, and some 21 kinds of ts'un or "texture wrinkle," including something called the tan-wo-ts'un or "pellet (as dropped into mud) whirlpool (eddies) texture." If this sounds pedantic, it should be seen in context: the Chinese belief that any stroke (like any character) was a unit of meaning, virtually a work of art; and that the picture could be as much...
NEARLY EVERYTHING in the exhibition has a shimmering insubstantiality to it. A pale orange silk prayer rug with silver and green blossoms, which may have belonged to the Shah himself, looks as if it would have crumbled to dust if he had ever knelt on it. Though they are lethal weapons, his damascened swords and daggers are inlaid with golden flowers and lines of flowing script. The astrolabe looks more like an extravagantly ingenious toy than a working navigation instrument. Even the coins of Isfahan look too pretty to spend...