Word: silks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spicy fruitiness, smooth as silk and without defect.; it is...full of conviction and elegantly stated...
...People's Republic of China is a power-shipper, material girl's paradise. At the free market near the Embassy district in Beijing (called alternately the Cotton Market or yifu--clothing--alley), J. Crew Barn Jackets sell, (after a little bargaining), for $10. Silk Ann Taylor Blouses, $5. Laura Ashley-esque sundresses, $3!! Who cares if the seamstresses worked double overtime for 2 cents an hour in steamy firetraps gluing the corduroy cuffs on that barn jacket Exploitation Shmexploitation. Where else you can find a trendy coat for one Alex Hamilton? Besides, by purchasing that fashionable item...
Last Sunday we paid a call on playwright/chanteuse Erica Werner in her capacious Adams House brownstone. We found Ms. Werner, often referred to as "high society's bad girl," reposed in indolent decadence on her silk-sheeted bed, wearing a richly embroidered smoking jacket that smelled of the Orient (If we didn't ask what she had on underneath, it's not because we didn't wonder...
...conscience? One vote here for Jack Nicholson, who wouldn't have any trouble with the pivotal scene in which "Rationality shrieked at him, 'Let it go, Kincaid, get back on the road. Shoot the bridges, go to India. Stop in Bangkok on the way and look up the silk merchant's daughter who knows every ecstatic secret the old ways can teach. Swim naked with her at dawn in jungle pools and listen to her scream as you turn her inside out at twilight. Let go of this' -- the voice was hissing now -- 'it's outrunning you.' But the slow...
...program begins this month, with some twodozen people working on public service projects,according to Serve Canada co-founder Hugh Silk...