Word: warping
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...Pucci fabric has not yet been successfully copied, there are less expensive stretch fashions, many of which make up by low cost what they lack in high style. Some of them add the drip-dry feature to crushability. Among them: Haymaker's flowery separates in a drip-dry warp knit, $29.95 each; and countless, nameless nylon shifts, $10 and up. The knits follow closely on Pucci's stretchy heels: Kimberly's wool dresses with jackets ($59.95), three-piece suits ($59.95 and $69.95) and plain dresses ($49.95 and $59.95), all in solid, placid colors with an occasional border...
...performing one piece." and his volumes and tempi are tailored like a Savile Row suit to the style and capacity of the soloist. Most important, he is a deft reader of what France's Irene Aitoff calls the "state of soul" of his partners-the crosscurrents that may warp a performance from its appointed course...
...from Marx and gloomily predicted the stagnation of a mature economy in the '30s, Slichter forecast the growth of the '40s. When his colleagues prepared for a depression to follow World War II, Slichter predicted the boom. Trained as a labor economist, Slichter never let his bias warp his judgment, ruffled labor leaders by labeling the postwar economy "laboristic," recommending stronger laws against picket line abuses...
...Greeks strove to hold a timeless image up to man. The Romans grew to love the grandiose and the particular. The Etruscans, who insisted that art must above all else be expressive, and who felt free to warp and distort their images to infuse them with energy, are equally the ancestors of Western...
...bare modern wall. Purists argue that translation from painted sketch to woven wool muffles the impact of the artist's intent. Certainly, tapestry has rarely been a medium for great art. But for works short of the greatest, tapestries have a disarming informality, and a richness of warp and weft that compensates for the loss of the immediacy that only the artist's brush can give...