Word: silk
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Richard Brown, 33, was an aeronautical engineer for ten years at a nearby Boeing aircraft plant?before he was laid off. Now he spends his days putting silk-screen designs on T shirts, which he sells. For a pizza-parlor promotion, he prints a picture of a little pizza baker on the shirt; for a hippie head shop he paints a marijuana cigarette design. Brown has given up hope of soon finding another job in his own field; he has not even written a resume. To conserve money, he and his wife spend nothing on entertainment, use powdered milk exclusively...
...especially the heavily embroidered, fringed variety once reserved for' covering grand pianos). Smart young matrons favor practical, less voluminous versions, often reversible and generally hooded. Pacesetters turn out in everything from Revillon's full-length black fox trimmed with chicken feathers and Adolfo's butterfly-wing silk kimono to the all-mink tent that Actress Elsa Martinelli wore over a sequined bathing suit at a Paris play opening. French, Italian and American designers practically all featured winter-weight capes last fall: those sent down the runways for spring are cut in breezy chiffon, ordinary denim and even...
...Liston's heavyweight title away in 1964. Then he was still calling himself Cassius Clay, and the jaunty slogan of his training camp was "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." Now at his headquarters in Miami Beach's Fifth Street Gym. the byword is "He moves like silk, hits like a ton"?and for good reason. Yon Cassius no longer has that lean and hungry look. After 3½ years of exile, he returned to the ring four months ago to dispatch California's Jerry Quarry with a third-round T.K.O. In defeating Quarry, Ali showed that...
...chance to tear the dead apart and turn them upside down in locked cabinets and carry their stiff corpses around in our arms as the characters in Loot do, we might all find release from the hold of death in our minds. For as objects, in silk-lined strong-boxes, our bodies, as Orton sees them, are interchangeable and not so much contemptible as laughable. Joe Orton in some uncanny way realized that to make death at once funny and a fact was the best way to keep it from defining our existence. At Orton's funeral, Donald Pleasance paid...
Schwitters did not share the political militancy of other German Dadaists. He was less concerned with offing the pig than mocking it and making silk purses out of its ears. "The picture," he wrote, "is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside." And indeed, the complex interlocks and dark, sonorous reds and greens in his Construction for Noble Ladies, 1919, carry no detectable political message. But he was intensely aware of the extent to which media had begun to affect life, and the fragments of lettering in The Und-Picture, 1919, reflect a world...