Word: silk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Design School, in addition to participating in the activities of the college strike steering committee. is silk-screening shirts and other material with strike symbols...
...conjunction. New witch recruits must be content to kneel before the altar and receive 40 purifying strokes across the buttocks. Some covens use whips made with shoelaces that may leave permanent scars. But Alex's group, Miss Johns reassuringly reports, uses a silver whip with thongs of embroidery silk...
...Empire and Romantic styles. The nineteenth century public highly valued the furniture that warmed their houses. The mixture of decorative art with painting and sculpture in the Metropolitan exhibition illustrates the ties between the two during the last century. Whole rooms have been recreated by the museum with yellow silk chairs and gilt chandeliers to look the way they once did in American mansions. The style of the rooms is more ornate than the plain style in the paintings that describe a cross section of American life...
...exhibition itself reinforces this feeling of distance from the twentieth century by having so many pieces of actual furniture and whole rooms where you can stick your head over the rail into nineteenth century atmosphere. The material presence of the decoration-the glass, the silk, the gold knick-knacks-settles the paintings in history...
...extensions. Dickey's house on a man-made lake in Columbia, S.C., which he shares with his wife and younger son, is a pleasant, orderly place that shows the number of things the owner cares deeply about. In his study are eight guitars -six and twelve string, silk and steel and bronze string -that Dickey plays a couple of hours a day, practicing, improvising, adapting hymns to New Orleans rhythms. Near them are other stringed instruments-Dickey's ten polished wood bows. He walks 28-target archery field ranges the way his contemporaries tramp golf courses...