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Curls and Stretches. Unlike regular knits, which are produced by inter-looping a single yarn, double knit fabric is made by interlocking the loops from two strands of yarn with a double stitch-one in back, one in front. This makes a strong, supple cloth that is suitable for dresses...
For Maurice, the idyll is not to last. Clive suddenly has a change of heart, marries, and returns to bourgeois respectability, the lord of a country estate. He pushes the past aside and urges his former lover to do the same. But Maurice's temperament is not so supple. He...
> Chou's affable manner masks viscera of tough and supple alloys; he is a master of policy and implementation with an infinite capacity for detail. Chou quickly cuts to the heart of matters, drops the impractical, dissimulates when necessary and never gambles-without four aces. In talks I have...
And so when an American administration dealt with a revolutionary power, Kissinger believed it should attempt to eliminate the ideological element of the struggle by forcing its opponent to behave in more traditional terms. For it was a cardinal rule of balance-of-power diplomacy that when countries entered the...
Manuel Córdova-Rios is a simple man. He draws no moral from his experience; his descriptions of jungle cures and tribal society are tantalizing rather than complete. Still, he is a superb storyteller. His rich, supple prose re-creates the darkness of the rain forest-its dangers, omens...