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...Navajo men hunted and raided, the women learned weaving from the tribe's more peaceful neighbors-and frequent victims-the Pueblos. At first they copied Pueblo styles, but they soon developed their own. As early as 1795, Governor Fernando Chacón observed that "they work their wool with more delicacy and taste than the Spaniards...
VIEWING THE OFFERINGS one at a time, there are some exceptional pieces. Russian peasants are reknowned for their wood-carving skills, and I was happy to find a few segments of intricately-sculpted decorative house trim, plus about 30 wooden distaffs (for spinning wool into yarn). Half the distaffs are covered with figures of birds, animals, and fanciful arabesques in bright tempera; the others are blond wood so delicately carved that they give the impression of lace. A great find was a group of clever toy whistles made by craftsmen in the Arkhangelsk and Tula regions from 1890 through...
Standing behind a box of S.O.S. soap pads and a box of Brillo pads, the announcer looks out from the television screen and soberly, sincerely, begins his pitch: "There's been a lot of confusion lately over which of these steel-wool soap pads actually has the longest lasting soap. S.O.S. says 'longest lasting,' and Brillo says 'now lasts longest.' Obviously somebody has to be wrong, and somebody is." The announcer removes the Brillo box from sight and concludes: "The facts reveal that only S.O.S. can make this claim...
There was Brobdingnagian Songbird Mama Cass Elliott at Harrods, the elegant London department store, buying crochet wool and minding her own business. "I pulled two ? 1 notes out of my purse," said Mama Cass, "but they were wrapped inside five ? 10 notes, which fell to the floor. When I stooped to pick them up, this lady started hitting me on the head with her shopping bag, shouting 'What are you doing? What are you doing?' I don't know why she did it. She was an upper-class type, in a tweed suit, and I think...
...those trying to get into the Komsomol, the party youth organization, the traditional path to full party membership. Though long hair is still frowned upon, youth is becoming more individualistic. A friend claims that the students in one Moscow school got together and refused to wear the standard brown wool uniforms. "Now," he says, "they wear what they please." Communist Party membership is still the criterion for advancement, but a plan to issue new party cards is under way as part of an effort to weed and prune the membership for new growth...