Word: wool
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Whoever wins the election will face an uphill battle to turn the nation's sluggish economy around. In the mid-1950s, world demands for Uruguay's two major exports, wool and beef, fell off sharply. Since then, inflation has soared 9,000%. Between 1956 and 1968, the country's gross national product fell 15%. Its social welfare programs, once a model for the world (by 1915, Uruguay had instituted the eight-hour day, free medical service and compulsory education), have bogged down in a lumbering bureaucracy. A quarter of Uruguay's 1,000,000-member work...
...been the story of his own life." A French journalist and editor of Paris-Match, Galante gleaned a wealth of new detail on the "intimate Malraux" from 30 interviews with the former Culture Minister. He relates, for example, that the sartorially elegant Malraux buys his blue serge and black wool-twist suits at Lanvin and that he dines frequently at an exclusive Paris restaurant, Lasserre, on hearts of palm, grilled steak and an orange filled with sherbet...
...Commoner sees it, the deterioration of the environment is caused largely by the kinds of goods now being produced. Since 1946, synthetic fibers have displaced cotton and wool; aluminum, plastic and concrete have captured markets once held by lumber and steel; nitrogen fertilizers have replaced natural manure...
...expression. The earnest spontaneity and unorthodoxy of spirit are gratifying. Catching the student in the act of becoming an artist is. however, a depressing experience. The show has an admirable scope: it includes photography, handicrafts as well as oils and graphics. Adventurous use is made of diverse materials like wool, metal. wood, and plastic. But, in spite of the exhibit's range and diversity, it contains few stirring and competently executed works of art. You have to wonder if the fine artists were rejected, or if they even exist...
...Fifth Avenue, which had a particularly hot run on monks' capes. In Los Angeles, where even the ladies who sell maps to movie stars' homes have been cloaked up for years, boutiques are having trouble keeping capes in stock. A favorite is St. Laurent's Moroccan wool version, already snapped up by Jennifer Jones. The farther-out Reva's Fashions boutique, where Joanne Woodward picked up her reversible Guinevere cloak, has a bestseller in matte jersey, its turban hood framed in ostrich or turkey feathers. Reva's also stocks a show-stopping full-length Levi...