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Word: silks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, the copious supply of "sueded silk" boxers is impressive. Silk boxers cost $24.99--expensive but decorous. Flannel and Harvard boxers ($12) are also available...

Author: By Geoffrey J. Hoffman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Bargain Hunting's Knight Errant | 1/13/1993 | See Source »

...argue issues of individual responsibility as a way of curbing demand. The British understood this perfectly when they went to war with China to for opium addiction upon the Asiatic masses as a means of repatriating much of the empire's national treasure, then being spent on oriental silk, tea and gold...

Author: By Kenneth R. Walker, | Title: The Drug War's Dirty Laundry | 12/15/1992 | See Source »

Green velvet, black silk, silver spandex and tweed jackets flash as 30 men and women line up by team outside the shiny wooden dance floor...

Author: By Virginia A. Triant, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY | 11/2/1992 | See Source »

...night, you're stumbling to a party through mists of rain, the brain clouded with a few spirits. At the soiree, as you leave your coat and gloves with the attendant, and your presence is announced to the assembled gathering, you suddenly see, through a passing haze of colored silk and crystal glass, a man/woman to your liking. Unfortuately the necessary preamble of introduction and mutual mental exploration simply isn't within your power. Call the spin-doctor. Along trots Dr. Spin, who meets your beloved's spinner. "Tony's on form tonight, a bit of drink, but nothing...

Author: By Tony Gubba, | Title: For the Moment | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

Warhol challenged the accepted definition of art by experimenting with the border between originality and mass production. He used popular images of objects and celebrities and silk-screened them on to canvases, often varying color combinations. This exhibit contains some classic Warhol subjects, including Chairman Mao, Jackie Kennedy, and Marilyn Monroe. One corner of the exhibition space is devoted to a pile of Kellogg's Cornflakes packing box replicas. Carpenters made these wooden boxes to the exact dimensions of the actual ones; Warhol's assistants silk-screened the letters onto the pieces...

Author: By Tara B. Reddy, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Three Masters on Mickey Mouse | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

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