Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perhaps the most beautiful ride I have ever taken, along winding mountain roads and through tunnels carved into the hills. All around us and below, the lights of Monaco sparkled on in the early morning darkness, like so many precious stones in the folds of a rich, dark velvet blanket. I thought of the princess, tucked safely away in her palace in this fairy tale land, and I thought of the words "happily ever after...
...proposal came as part of a petition by a Concord-based Indian organization, which asked for the use of city property for a regional festival. In return for his backing. Vellucci was promised the title of Chief Little Velvet a loose translation of his Italian surname...
...What the heck, never having golf lessons helped some." As Nelson says with envy but without resentment, "Hogan and I worked hard to perfect our swings. Sam was born with his." Even the best golfers' swipes show the strain of their various checkpoints, but Snead still makes his velvet swing seem the most natural thing for a man to do. Over the decades, only Sam has noticed much change. "Some rusty spots," he said. "I'm not as strong as I was when...
...self-proclaimed king of jelly bean art, a title no one is likely to contest. In past political times, the "jelly bean impressionism" of Peter Rocha, 43, might well have received the critical reception accorded oils of bullfighters on black velvet or children with big watery eyes. But with a prime consumer of jelly beans in the White House, Rocha hopes that his art will catch the public's fancy. Rocha attests to using Jelly Bellys, the President's favorite, because "they are the only brand with a full color spectrum." And he has at last found...
...figure out "The Heroine," a bare, haunting song that features only a guitar and Reed's voice. At first, it seems a tale of adventure on the high seas that sports one hitch: the hero is a woman. But the cut takes on added significance when one remembers the Velvet Underground sang "Heroin," a violently direct song about drugs. All at once, the drug imagery emerges...