Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ambles in to the rinky-tink beat of Joseph Lamb's rag, Bohemia, a little guy in a shiny satin shirt and crushed-velvet breeches. Mikhail Baryshnikov, loose of limb with plenty of shoulder action, adjusts his bowler hat. From the wings a woman's leg appears, and then the rest of Marianna Tcherkassky. The two link up, meet Martine van Hamel, and ease downstage in a vaudeville shuffle. Stop. Resume action, triple speed...
Ford was given the chair on Mao's left. Then came Kissinger and the other Americans. Three huge floor lamps with green shades bathed Mao in light from behind. Red velvet drapes were pulled over bookshelves and windows...
They have names like Ecstasy Unlimited, the Velvet Touch and This Is Heaven. They are in business mostly as "massage parlors," but when police try to shut them down, they squirm into some new designation-rap parlors, escort services, schools of sexual technique, nude encounter groups and even nude weight-lifting centers...
...Japan or China, that sells for only $1.50 at San Francisco's Obiko Boutique. A detachable black leather pouch, originally designed by Manhattan's Ruza for the U.S. ski team (both sexes), hangs from either a canvas belt or a shoulder strap. Other designs include squares of velvet, printed velveteen canteens, hand-painted leather boxes and oblongs of beads...
Your comments regarding the "new fashion" of jumpsuits was of particular interest to me because in the year when I was writing the screenplay of National Velvet (which makes it 1943), I admired the jumpsuit worn by my gas-station attendant. I talked the owner into giving me one of the jumpsuits...