Word: silkenly
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...recount the saga of the five nubile Zinn sisters of Bloodsmoor Valley, Pa., circa 1880. For these young ladies, the trajectory of love follows the customarily lunatic lines of an Oates romance. The youngest Zinn, Deirdre, is snatched away by a stranger in "an outlaw balloon of sinister black-silken hue" as she sits crocheting in a gazebo. Sister Malvinia escapes the toils of Victorian family life in her own way: she makes a career as an actress and is courted by a singularly repulsive Mark Twain. Octavia marries a closet sadist and feather-boa fetishist. Constance Philippa runs away...
...With a silken rustle, like a grande dame rising from table, the V.S.O.E. slips away at precisely 5:44 p.m. All the food loaded on at Boulogne is French, save for the croissants, which are delivered hot at dawn in Lausanne, Switzerland, and are sadly soggy. The chef on board is Michel Ranvier, a graduate of the renowned Paris restaurant Jamin; he was approved by Sherwood, who is the author of an excellent gourmet guide to London. The train's general manager is Claude Ginella, formerly with the Savoy in Rome and the Meurice in Paris...
PINKY AND DIANNE. Two women who got their start doing custom designs for rock stars, Pinky (Wolman), 36, and Dianne (Beaudry), 37, have simmered down sufficiently since the '70s to produce clothes for men and women that add a silken worldliness to their original down and dirty flash. "We were tired of trash and wanted a smarter look," says Pinky. "We discovered silk, which we used for sportswear." Their designs are sassy and declarative, their colors showy but controlled. "We make clothes for a more urban lady, a sophisticate who follows the fashion magazines," says Pinky, who was recently...
...court attendants as an excuse for prolonging the merriment. As described in William S. Walsh's Curiosities of Popular Customs, at the height of the ceremonies, the king and five nobles withdrew and, covering themselves with tar and hemp, re-emerged as dancing bears, tied together with a silken rope...
...course if you are serious about these things, you must inevitably discover homemade ice cream-silken and voluptuous. A dozen supernal ice creams have passed through my life, notably the mythic chocolate almond chip fudge swirl created on Christmas (two quarts for company, one quart for me and my then husband to eat by the light of the freezer...