Word: silks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...products and ideas that the upward trend is almost certain to continue. Recently the company has: - > Invaded the $5 billion-a-year footwear business with Corfam, a leather substitute that looks, feels and "breathes" like leather and could cut into the natural leather market the way nylon slashed into silk...
...nation's biggest city had some of its most fascinating House races. In Manhattan's 17th ("Silk Stocking") District, where everybody wears nylons, able, articulate Republican John V. Lindsay, 42, spurned Goldwater and captured a fourth term by a 2-to-l margin over the combined totals of Democratic-Liberal Eleanor Clark French and the Conservative Party's Kieran O'Doherty. By bagging the biggest G.O.P. victory in New York, Lindsay became a voice to be listened to on the national scene. Democrat Adam Clayton Powell, the nation's worst Congressman according to a poll...
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART-11 West 53rd. The sculpture garden sports new acquisitions by Ferber, Calder and Ipousteguy. The lures inside are Pierre Bonnard's luminescent paintings (through Nov. 29), prints made by painters and sculptors (through Oct. 25), collages, silk-screen prints and sculptures by Britain's Eduardo Paolozzi (through Nov. 10), and 15 works by German Sculptor Günter Haese (through...
Another optical effect often exploited by op is the moiré pattern, familiar in the shimmer of watered silk fabrics. Fundamentally, these flashes of apparent reflection are created whenever two or more grids of parallel or periodic rulings-window screens, for example-are overlapped. When misaligned slightly, they produce ripples and curves not actually inherent in the grids. The smallest angle of change yields the greatest, most disturbed pattern displacements...
More than 40,000 West Berliners jammed the drafty, bomb-wracked Sportpalast last week, paying $100,000 for the privilege of watching a handful of men in silk spin madly around a banked oval track, for prizes ranging from a few bottles of wine to a brand-new DKW sedan. To beleaguered Berliners, the Six Days serves as carnival, communal songfest and emotional blowout. Only a fraction of the crowd is made up of racing fans, and as one old man said of the event, "It would be great if it weren't for those cyclists...