Word: silks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within a few years Peter strikes it rich with a videotic series called Ben Bullet. He takes to wearing one of those silk-sheen suits that look like beaten stainless steel. In his pocket is an offstage mistress, but under his collar is prickly...
...King has never been beaten, if he went to jail in St. Augustine with silk pajamas and a toothbrush--and departed abruptly to take and honorary degree at Yale--he exerts, nonetheless, unparallelled charisma in the black ghettos of the South, where his personal style is a measure of what a Negro may become...
Plucking the silk strings claw-hammer fashion with his right hand, Eto drew an incisive, harplike sound from the koto. As if feeling a pulse, his left hand roamed the length of the instrument, deftly depressing the vibrating strings in order to vary tones and lend the tinge of melancholy that is the unique trait of the koto. The opening melody, sketched against a background of moaning strings and sudden percussive bursts, followed the austere style of the ancient gagaku court music of Japan, then shifted in the second movement to a distinctly Western hymnal theme. In the final movement...
...Nation," sniffed Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan. "Then she should at least behave like a mother." What upset Ayub was that Fatima Jinnah looked so good in pants. The more she upbraided Ayub, the louder Pakistanis cheered the frail figure in her shalwar (baggy white silk trousers). By last week, with Pakistan's first presidential election only a fortnight away, opposition to Ayub had reached a pitch unequaled in his six years of autocratic rule...
Died. Phil Davis, 58, cartoonist-creator of Mandrake the Magician, the silk-hatted, opera-cloaked hero who hypnotized villains into paroxysms of fear and turned their bullets to putty with a snap of his fingers in 253 newspapers for 30 years; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...