Word: tassel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least 90% of the 2.8 million Americans graduating from high school this year wore on cap and gown some Bicentennial symbol, ranging from RWB cap tassel to round-the-shoulder Liberty Bell medallion...
Roger Van Tassel, chairman of the Economics Department, last year wrote that Gummerson's interests were "peripheral" to the "thrust" of the department, but he also cited alleged deficiencies in Gummerson's teaching and writing as grounds for the tenure decision...
...Japanese painters of Namban-ga. The demand among the castle lords for paintings like A Western Prince on Horseback stemmed partly from the princes' recognizably military splendors; these gorgeously caparisoned Western samurai must have fitted the opulence of the Momoyama period's taste down to the last tassel and square foot of gold leaf...
...Hence the delicate Amazon, who might have stepped out of a court masque. Her tribal body painting is transmuted into an exquisite damask of skin tattoos; every detail of Le Moyne's image, from the green, parklike landscape and the rippling blonde hair to the jaunty flutter of tassel and petal, adds to the sense of a new-minted Arcadia. It is, of course, completely artificial...
...dispense with her clothing, Jean Cocteau exclaimed "How vital!" She "retired" in 1937 to become an author (The G-String Murders, Gypsy) and sometime actress (You Can't Have Everything), but continued to make scores of "final" appearances. Asked about her style, Gypsy quoted her teacher Tessie the Tassel Twirler. "In burlesque," Tessie once told her, "you've got to leave 'em hungry for more. You don't just dump the whole roast on the platter...