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...easier time of it against the Dallas Cowboys. Every time Cowboy Quarterback Roger Staubach dropped back to pass, he found himself hounded by a fierce Redskin rush. By contrast, Redskin Quarterback Billy Kilmer had all the time he needed to send Receiver Charley Taylor a pair of thread-needle touchdown passes. All but smothering the Cowboy running attack, Washington rolled over Dallas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bowlmania | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

...FLAHERTY had managed Mailer's mayoralty race as well as he manager words, New York might have reeled right into the Hudson Bay. But Mailer's ex-campaign manager has compensated with a novel of comparable effect Guaranteed to unravel every thread in the critical web to unravel some mind and to get on your nerves. Fogarty & Co. a book to contend with Blustering, swaggering, clever, and thoroughly out of taste, it is steeped to the point of pickled in 1972 However much you may despise it you can't help but like it. And like the year...

Author: By Alice VAN Buren, | Title: Three Dogs With a Spoiler | 1/12/1973 | See Source »

...side table, and lays it in a slot of her machine. With her left hand, she positions the cloth, using a mark on the machine. Her foot, and her green slipper, depress a pedal, and the machine places the button down and news eight quick stitches of light blue thread in half a second. As she slides the material into position for the next button, she picks another button...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee jr., | Title: 'Welcome to the Republic of China' | 1/9/1973 | See Source »

...work," a taxingly intricate method of embroidery that flourished in London guild shops during the 13th and 14th centuries. The Met possesses one rare example, the so-called Chichester-Constable chasuble, whose scenes (like the Adoration of the Magi, opposite) are embroidered with dense, flat expanses of metal-covered thread. Tin, mined in Cornwall, was drawn to a fine ribbon, coated with gold, wound around the silk and then worked into the red velvet ground with a gold or silver needle; steel needles, as known today, were not used until the 15th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Vestments in the Grand Old Style | 12/25/1972 | See Source »

Embroidery is essentially decorative. As illusion, it is hobbled by the pattern of stitches, which could never attain the fluidity of line and shading that paint or wash gave. Refined as it is, with its or nue or "shaded gold" method of gold thread couched with varicolored silks, a roundel like the 16th century Spanish Adoration of the Magi (based, probably, on an unidentified Renaissance painting) is almost too limited in technique for the painting style it simulated. But in flat pattern, Renaissance and later embroiderers could and did achieve magnificent results-sometimes lighthearted and almost naive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Vestments in the Grand Old Style | 12/25/1972 | See Source »

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