Word: silks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dawkins' personal style is less brassy bluster than civilian silk. At Washington dinners and cocktail parties, he adroitly works a crowd and makes friends readily. Says retired Colonel Junius J. Bleiman, now an assistant dean at the Woodrow Wilson School and one of Dawkins' instructors during his days at West Point: "He is easy to get along with. There is really no pomp to Peter...
This is going smooth as silk." Thus, with only days to go, NASA Spokesman Jim Kukowski ebulliently described the final launch preparations for next week's flight of the Challenger space shuttle. Lift-off for the eighth mission of NASA'S Space Transportation System, known as STS-8, is scheduled for Aug. 30 at 2:15 a.m. at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, just two months after Challenger's historic flight carrying the first American woman into space. That is the shortest turnaround time yet between shuttle flights. This time there will be three more firsts...
Beginning with a video scrapbook, the hour recapitulates the dramatic highlights of An American Family: an icy Pat Loud informing her philandering husband Bill that she wants a divorce, and the eldest son Lance, flamboyantly sashaying out of the closet, bedizened in silk scarves and blue lipstick...
...tries to fulfill this promise by devoting as much as 40% of its daily general-service programming to educational purposes: lessons in calligraphy, the guitar, economics, political science, English, French, German and Russian. News takes up a considerable 35% of general programming, entertainment only 24%. One recent highlight: The Silk Road, a multimilliondollar, 30-hour epic that explores contemporary life along the ancient Chinese and Central Asian routes followed by the silk caravans. NHK's second channel is dedicated to education and often works in tandem with the nation's primary schools. It also offers Shakespeare, symphonic music...
...eight stylishly dressed jurists huddled around a stark, white, rectangular table were sifting through endless snippets of yarn and swatch upon swatch of silk, rayon and linen. "We need to soften the yellow to almost a blond yellow," one mulled aloud, squinting at several fabric squares. A green swatch was rejected by one woman with a disapproving, "That's too much of a bathroom tile shade." Another tan square drew the comment, "Good. It doesn't have any shine, like a brown paper bag." It seemed for a time that no decisions would be reached, but after...