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...thesis, Wong combined pictures from fashion magazines with photographs of herself simulating a bulemic episode. She printed the images on pieces of fabric and sewed them together. She displays the quilt like a tablecloth, laid out on a table and set with china and glasses...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: Luck and the World Smile Upon Her | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...will necessarily reflect a compromise between Stewart's champagne tastes and the retailer's beer budget. Class, in most cases, carries the day, but there are exceptions. Says K mart executive Marilyn Gill: "It was difficult for Martha to understand why not everyone would want a 100%- cotton tablecloth." Looks as if practicality won that round: the cloth will probably be a blend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A New Guru of American Taste? | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

Late at night in Paris -- and it was almost always late at night in Jimmy Baldwin's Paris -- he would occasionally take out a ball-point pen and start drawing a large rectangle on what was left of a beer-stained paper tablecloth. Inside the rectangle he would slowly write, sometimes with a faint smile on his lips, a series of incantatory words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bearing Witness to the Truth James Baldwin: 1924-1987 | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

Subway posters in Atlanta show a cup of Coke against a backdrop of a straw basket and a red checkered tablecloth. Usually something can be served on a checkered cloth only if Timmy and Lassie and Andy and Opie would eat it; but if the latest ad blitz is as successful as Santa was, the colorizing fanatics going after these shows will soon be dyeing breakfast beverages brown...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Snap, Crackle and Pop | 10/14/1987 | See Source »

...afternoon in the Loita Hills, there were three Masai warriors, called ilmurran, sitting in the shade beside a dung-walled hut. Their hair was long and greased with fat. They were barefoot and wore only the shuka, a bright- patterned piece of cloth, like a tablecloth, draped as a short toga around waist and shoulders. Their spears leaned against the wall of the hut, with their rungu -- knob-ended clubs that the Masai can throw with a fierce accuracy. One of the warriors, named David, spoke halting English. He was about 20 years old, although the Masai pay little attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

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