Word: silks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Andy Warhol draws and quarters him on silk screen. Bob Buccella places Mickey's hat on Van Gogh -- minus one ear. Keith Haring and many other artists & similarly deconstruct their subject, but Disney's founding rodent keeps smiling, confident that he will outlast them...
Buchanan's most significant support comes from the state's largest newspaper, the Manchester Union Leader, whose hostility toward Bush is legend. The paper's late publisher, William Loeb, years ago labeled Bush a "clean- fingernail, silk-stocking liberal," and no amount of presidential stroking has calmed Loeb's successor, his widow Nackey, 67. To her, Bush simply "sits under an umbrella and watches the storm, hoping to come out with neither rain on his face nor clay on his feet...
...lucky as he proves to be. Catch the cool stare of society dame Drew Preston (Nicole Kidman), the captive, then mistress, of Dutch (Hoffman); her eyes don't move from his as he submits her face to the indignity of a first caress. Listen to the whisper of silk against silk as Drew sashays toward Billy on the night they might make love. From such subtle signals emerges a lopsided triangle: the strong man and two people independent enough to survive him. Billy had first caught Dutch's attention when he juggled four balls on a railroad overpass...
...this monologue consists of a large wooden table and chair. On the table sit a glass of water and the box containing the "Monster," Gray's 1900-page unedited novel. Gray sits at the table in a red and blue checkered shirt with black slacks and Chinese silk long underwear which he exposes to us in his remembrance of being thrown out of a museum in Leningrad...
...then, you probably aren't a regular shopper at the House and Senate stationery stores. These emporiums stock, along with paper clips and legal pads, an array of merchandise that would look odd sitting atop a legislative aide's desk: pewter serving trays, crystal candlesticks, leather wallets, china vases, silk neckties and much more. All at rock-bottom, wholesale prices...