Word: twig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...photographic peek at Caroline's and John Kennedy Jr.'s "children-and-study room," the remodeled library of her Fifth Avenue Manhattan apartment. On the study table were some of Jackie's treasures: some black coral she found while diving near Yucatan, a mushroom on a twig from Angkor Wat, two bronze Egyptian cats and, perhaps revealingly, a string of blue Greek worry beads...
Wabi is one of the key ideas in traditional Japanese culture. It has to do with spareness, poverty and austerity. A teahouse, made of bare, unlacquered wood, with its straw thatch and river stones, displays wabi. Wabi is the rough, salty irregularity of a classical tea bowl, the plain twig in a flower arrangement, the coarse black cotton of a kimono. Its meaning extends beyond the sphere of aesthetics into a more general discipline; it suggests an uncluttered and precisely lived life in which the individual is brought into a clear relationship with nature and with his society. No matter...
...programmed to jerk into a sudden, evasive barrel roll the moment they are picked up by SAM radar. Over enemy infiltration routes, AC-130 Spectre gunships lay down a barrage of fire when the presence of troops is revealed by tiny air-dropped sensors no larger than a twig, including magnetic metal detectors and "people sniffers" that respond electronically to the smell of ammonia in urine...
...idle boast. On Twig-gy's 98-lb. frame Justin built a mini-conglomerate. Besides Twiggy Good Times Productions, formed last October, there is an umbrella organization known as Twiggy Enterprises. Though Justin and Twiggy are now out of the fashion business, their organizations have in the past rented her name to Twiggy dolls ($1,000,000 profit in royalties) and Twiggy clothes ($300,000), and to Yardley of London cosmetics (around $1,000,000 over five years) for, among other things, eyeliners called "Twiggy Stix." "Deals, deals, deals," says Justin. "We do things as we get interested. That...
...have the impression I'm Mr. Svengali," he remarks. "Actually I'm the softest person in the world." Soft or not, he is very much in charge. "Without him, where would she be?" her father once asked. "He is the prop on which she leans." Says the Twig herself: "None of it would have happened if I hadn't met Justin. He listens to everybody's opinion and then makes up his own mind. Fortunately, I listen only to Justin's advice." If they disagree, she adds, "we do it his way." In meetings...