Word: silks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Designer's description: "Silk tulle over silk brocade trimmed in little crystals and French flowers." The dress contains 215 yards of material, took ten seamstresses several weeks to put together. Studio carpenters had to cut a double door in Actress Caron's dressing room to make room for the hoops...
...selfless Christian general who had fought down Communists and war lords to unite his country for the first time in its modern history. Ten years later many a schoolboy, teacher and clubwoman was hearing a far different story: Chiang's wife was an arrogant creature who slept on silk sheets, while Chiang himself was corrupt and stupid; he stubbornly blocked the path to China's progress, and went out of his way to pick fights with those persecuted heroes of agrarian reform, the Chinese Communists. It was to the mutual disaster of both Chiang and the U.S. that...
...Japanese call their prints Ukiyo-e, meaning literally "pictures of the floating world." For the great period of Japanese printmaking (1650-1850), the "floating world" meant mainly the silk-swathed, sake-steeped joys of Edo's (later Tokyo's) popular theater and bawdyhouse life. The prints were produced by close cooperation between artist, wood engraver, printer and publisher, and sold for only a few cents apiece. The most famous publisher had his shop just outside the Yoshiwara (Edo's red-light quarter), offered illustrated guides and souvenirs of the quarter designed by the greatest Ukiyo-e masters...
...current Art News seems to show that Mathieu paints as he drives-as much to be seen as to see. To paint an abstraction of the 13th-century Battle of Bouvines (in which one of Mathieu's forebears had a part, of course) he dressed up in black silk pants and jacket, a white helmet, and greaves fastened to his shins with white cross-straps. Then he called in some admiring friends to watch the show...
...Silk Stockings (music & lyrics by Cole Porter; book by George S. Kaufman Leueen MacGrath and Abe Burrows) spent three spotlighted months on the road pitching things out and patching things up. It will probably spend many months longer on Broadway. The reason is not that it offers anything unusual in the way of merit or novelty; it seems almost frightened of anything distinguished. The reason lies rather in a formula professionalism, a kind of glazed mediocrity, a persisting common touch that, here and there, is a touch too common. Silk Stockings is all Main Stem and no flower...