Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evening wear, St. Laurent extended his dinner-jackets-for-women theme by adding Oscar Wilde-type velvet knickers with jeweled buckles and garters. His chain-belt trademark was ev erywhere. But what looked like his biggest winners were the trim, bolero-jacketed suits, with lots of fringe on suede belts. All in all, it was enough to rate Yves a ten-minute ovation...
...girl in a green velvet evening gown, and two non-descripts met in front of Mem Church at around seven Friday morning, dropped down on a bedspread, lighted candles, and waited. At that point the only other people visible were a policeman strolling near Emerson and a couple of janitors shooting the breeze next to Sever...
...Velvet Verse. After three centuries, time has tossed up just such a poet in John Berryman, whose Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, published in 1956, is one of the best long poems in English since Eliot's Four Quartets. He knew Anne's limitations: . . . all this bald abstract didactic rime I read appalled
...velvet verse...
...bottle. He was recklessly profligate in everything. Some of these letters about relatively unimportant matters contain some of his best prose. Thus, in a lyrical homesick reply to Poet Margaret Taylor (after she had written him about a house he might rent in Wales): "The room, the velvet, padded room upstairs where poems are waiting like people one has always loved but never met, and O to sit there, lost, alone in the universe, at home, at last, the people all with their arms open...