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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: A Good Visit with Chairman Mao | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Body Shops | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Baglets | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Nov. 3, 1975 | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

Seventy-eight years have passed since Bram Stoker dredged him from the velvet underground of Victorian sexual repression. The authentic apocalypse of war, the real specter of deprivation, should have exorcised this titled vampire long ago. Instead, Count Dracula has become the Western world's most durable ghoul. There are Dracula dolls, songs, comic books and histories-proving the existence of a 15th century tyrant dubbed Dracul (dragon). Vampire movies have been made almost since the dawn of cinema and, according to Editor Leonard Wolf, there are now more than 200 Draculoid film titles, ranging from the silent Nosferatu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nosferatu | 8/18/1975 | See Source »

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