Word: swatch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outlandish, paints her Manhattan office walls adulterous red, covers the floor with simulated leopard skin, burns incense through the day. She invents cliches and talks in capital letters, whether dismissing a contender for the best-dressed ranks ("On her, EVERYTHING looks like a chandelier") or praising a swatch of material ("I ADORE that pink, it's the navy BLUE of India"), with the sort of outrageous rhetoric that has reduced hardened fashion types to awed obeisance...
...skulking outside a big factory. Suddenly the virus slips into the complex living cell which, factory-like, has a definite schedule for receiving raw materials and processing them for the benefit of the whole organism. Either before or just after it slips in, the virus sheds its coat, a swatch of protein...