Word: silks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thigh-highs are all over the stores, selling for between $6 and $60, in black, navy and white, and even plaids, Argyles, fancy lace and silk blends. "It's a lot of fashion for a little price," says Kal Ruttenstein, Bloomingdale's veteran vice president for fashion direction. Comments Benny Lin, Macy's fashion director: "It's not just a metropolitan thing -- it's selling well all over...
...drier, prompting a shift from a crop-based to a livestock-centered society. And by about 200 B.C., a warlike people called the Xiongnu had overrun a large part of the region. As part of a peace agreement with China's Han dynasty, the Xiongnu demanded annual tributes of silk, wine, rice, concubines and other luxuries. According to Kessler, the transport of these goods to central Asia marked the earliest full-scale use of the Silk Road, the fabled network of trade routes that ultimately stretched to the Mediterranean Sea; on the Silk Road, bolts of Chinese silk were carried...
...episodes in the book recounts his intense quest for just the right emblem to paint on his canoe paddle at summer camp. Citing an occasion when his father gave him a $20 bill, Kirstein remembers "the papery cash, its tough fibrous thinness inlaid with bits of red and green silk." The dreamy young man did not take much interest in academics, but he passed Harvard's entrance exam anyway. Once enrolled, he writes, "I felt like a minnow with the freedom to swim in whomever's wake I wanted...
...special-interest "friends" and normal Americans. Though most gifts become government property, First Families are allowed to keep whatever they like, as long as they declare it. Last year, according to recently released disclosure forms, the Clintons chose to hang on to picture frames from Tom Hanks (value: $530); silk neckties from Donna Karan ($255); and sneakers with CLINTON printed on the tongues, from an Arkansas shoe manufacturer ($525). The faux- Magritte-ish painting (detail left) Stewardship by Greg Mort ($1,200) was a gift of the artist and his wife that was presented to the Clintons by their real...
...first work on the program, Beethoven's Quartet, Opus 18, No. 1, was the most impressively rendered of the pieces, Its second movement, a theme and variations set labeled "Adagio affettuoso e appassionato," was wrenchingly beautiful, the notes spun out with the refinement of silk. The piece provided a musical tour of each player's attributes, certain themes given from one to another, each adding his or her own carefully-conceived statement to the entirety of the conversation. The faster movements, while not quite as powerfully alluring, were also effectively interpreted and performed...