Word: velvets
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Burgundy is just a good red wine nowadays, but 500 years ago it was Europe's richest dukedom, spilling from the Alps to the Zuider Zee. Beefy burghers, dressed in furs and velvet, thronged its towns, paid out hard silver for the works of its artists and craftsmen. Last week a sparkling display of the things they bought drew 11,000 visitors to Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. The armor, jewelry, tapestries, illuminated manuscripts, furniture, banners and polychromed sculptures on show reflect one of the most sumptuous eras of all time...
...Brussels' Parliament (designed for only 200 deputies, it was crammed with 1,000 guests). At the ministers' left sat the diplomatic corps, to the right were Belgium's top justices, grave in fur-trimmed gowns. Next to them were Senators and Representatives. Under a huge red velvet canopy stood the throne of Belgium, a formidable chair-newly gilded and fitted with red upholstery-which had been lugged down from the Parliament building's attic...
...third and only remaining candidate was General Higino Craveiro Lopes, 57-year-old airman and ex-leader of the green-shirted Portuguese Legion. He had been hand-picked for the presidency by Salazar, the austere former schoolteacher who has run Portugal with an iron hand in a velvet glove for 23 years. On Sunday, Portugal's voters duly trooped to the polls, cast their ballots for the unopposed presidential candidate, and in went Lopes...
...Bowie] heard her gasp, a startled catch of the breath as his hand ran down her arched back with a sleeking motion, encountered the stunning soft abundance of her hips, and drew her hard against him. Mouth crushed to mouth. Perfumed, soft as velvet, hot as fire, her lips trembled under his kiss...
...listening to the radio. She had scarcely sat down when a producer phoned, asking her to do a straight bit that night on an NBC television show called Broadway Open House. "All I had to do was bring a sexy evening gown, so I got out my royal blue velvet with the white ermine on top and got right over to the studio. There was no script or anything. They said, 'You just sit there and act dumb. Your name is Dagmar...