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...just any walls and windows, of course. Jenny Bell's long skirts, coats and dresses are made from venerable fabrics. Most of them-18th century Russian Orthodox deacons' vestments, Oriental silk wall hangings, early American quilts-were rescued from museum basements or bargained for at antique auctions. They were cleaned, reworked, cut and designed for contemporary...
...form of the protest-still open to revision, the women at the meeting agreed-will ask women to wear a silk-screening of the Women's Liberation symbol and a 1-1 or equal sign pinned to the backs of their Commencement robes. Men will be invited to show support by wearing the 1-1 or equal sign on their robes...
...WILLIAMS explores the 26-year-old minister of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Dexter was King's first pastorate, and at the time, he said with pride that it "was sort of a silk-stocking church catering only to a certain class." King's life-long friend, the late Louis Lomax, put it more bluntly. As Williams quotes him, "King well knew before he assumed the pastorate... that nonprofessional and uneducated Negroes were not welcome at the Dexter Avenue altar...
...television specials? King, whose conception of success before Montgomery was that of the insular notoriety of the well-respected minister of a silk-stocking church, discerned within the Zeitgeist the possibility of transcending this notion of success. This idea of becoming a national figure must have played with increasing regularity in King's mind as his press coverage and that of the boycott increased. Having been reared in an environment in which one's social position was, in part, evaluated by the number of one's citations on the society page of the Atlanta Daily World. King was sufficiently media...
...million-dollar marvels by fetching $1,200,000. A smallish Gauguin self-portrait, far less impressive than several others he painted, brought $420,000-an auction record for that artist. Degas's 37½-inch-high La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans, wearing the original cloth tutu and silk hair ribbon Degas used, broke the existing auction record for sculpture, selling for $380,000. Ironically, the little statue was received with such hostility when Degas first exhibited it in 1881 that he never exhibited any other figure during his lifetime...