Word: wool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bring all the warm garments you can find--wool hat, ear muffs, ski mask, long underwear, electric blanket. And, still, you are cold. You bring all the warm drinks you can pour into thermoses--hot chocolate, coffee. You tuck a pint of something your mother would be ashamed of you for drinking into your coat pocket. You remove it and take a swig. And, still, you are cold...
Real flintlocks--and camera shutters--fired, setting up clouds of smoke. Some on each side looked rather convincingly wounded, and wives in frilly caps and wool cloaks ran out to nurse their...
Kramer (15 goals, four assists) will be called upon to work his scoring magic again Saturday when the Crimson laxmen host Adelphi at 1 p.m. Admission is free, but bring ski coat, wool hat, a couple of blankets and some sticks to throw on the bonfire at Ohiri Field...
...touch on every color in the rainbow. Their apparel even covered a bunch of colors that usually get left out of rainbows. My eyes, when they happened to stray from the podium, caught flashes of robin's-egg-blues and dark browns, pinks and greens and yellows and ragg wool sweaters. Brights and darks and neons and dulls, splattered on everything from tank tops to overcoats...
...many notions about shape and fabric that it bursts open like a just discovered treasure chest. The waist rises on a short black leather skirt, but the hem falls irregularly. A raincoat is made of polyester that feels and falls like inked paper. One pantsuit in atomic-orange wool knit looks like a drill uniform for fashion insurrectionists. Another pantsuit in silk clings and flares in the jacket, rides the waist, then blossoms out in the cuffs, looking, in its mad dappling of colors, like a loft painter's drop cloth. "Everything is so much the couture look, the expensive...