Word: tablecloths
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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...
...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...
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...
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...
...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...