Word: silks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transparent black net. In between was supposed to be little more than a bare bodkin. "I'm supposed to have on one body stocking," confided Gloria, "but I have on three." "I like to look pretty, not kooky," said Chessie Rayner, explaining why she put on a white silk slip underneath Bill Blass's fishnet A-line dress...
...been combed through for the original Empire-style furniture (only De Gaulle's eight-room suite has been done in Louis XVI); provincial and national museums were searched for the original paintings. To weave the 24 Aubusson rugs, carefully kept facsimiles of the original patterns were used; Lyon silk-makers simply followed swatches saved from Napoleon's purchases to reproduce the curtains and upholstery. To bring the Trianon up to date, air conditioning, 350 telephones, 27 bathrooms have been added, along with TV outlets in every room...
...living by growing maize and rice in sun-baked clay that scarcely tolerates thorny scrub and cactus. Inside the Marichal bohio (palm-bark walls, thatched roof, oddments of homemade furniture), a nine-year-old boy sprawls shirtless on the concrete floor, unraveling the thread from an old silk stocking. With infinite care, he winds the thread round and round a scrap of rubber until he has a ball about 9 in. in circumference. The boy's mother enters the room unnoticed and watches, frowning, while he wraps the ball tightly with adhesive tape, tests his handiwork with a couple...
...thick with speeding new cars and gaily painted trucks, reach out into the countryside to draw off the surfeit of Thailand's bounty for world markets. Trains of wooden barges riding low in Bangkok's muddy Chao Phraya River carry rice, corn, copra, reams of incomparable Thai silk, jute-and illicit opium-to export. With the Thai annual growth rate of 7% a year, the baht (formerly called the tical and still worth a nickel), backed by gold and foreign-exchange reserves of nearly $650 million, is one of Asia's hardest currencies. The men who administer...
...Queen of Thailand. The royal barge sank after a collision, but no one dared offer a helping hand. When occasionally it was necessary to execute a royal personage, he was put inside a red bag, to avoid touching him, and beaten to death with a sandalwood stick wrapped in silk. Ordinary sentence of death in modern Thailand is meted out by machine gun following sentences of the courts. But with Buddhist reverence for life and typical Thai indirection, the condemned is concealed behind a curtain on which is painted a target-and it is the target at which the state...