Word: wooled
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...checks the prices. When Spilhaus senses a swindle, he purchases the suspicious garment and whisks it to a laboratory where it is sectioned, stripped of dyes and studied under microscopes. Spilhaus is searching for counterfeit cashmere, and all too often he finds it. A garment labeled 70% cashmere/30% wool frequently contains no more than 5% cashmere. The rest? Recycled rags, human hair, acrylic, asbestos, rabbit fur and even newspaper...
...cloth to coats, sweaters and scarves, designers have come out with cashmere tunics, miniskirts, camisoles and even sweat suits. Ralph Lauren can barely keep his cabled cashmere sweater for men in stock at $625, while Donna Karan's cashmere & bodysuit ($500 to $800) overwhelmingly outsells her less expensive merino-wool outfit...
Today, after a year of meeting voters outside Massachusetts, Dukakis has shown a bit more of himself. He speaks more willingly of his proud Greek parents. His new wool sweaters and lavender ties make him seem a little less prim. But he remains a politician without intensity. Attempts to enrich the message cannot overcome the candidate's zeal for programmed solutions...
...highlights of the musical comes at the beginning of the play when Harvard preps Jim (James P. Connolly) and Eric (Eric Pulier) try out for a fashion gang. Dressed in wool and corduroy the two lamely rap to the tune of Beethoven's Egmont Overture: "People ask us where we get our looks/ And we tell them the Brothers Brooks...
...huddled under two quilts, a sleeping bag and a wool blanket--dressed in a sweatshirt, jeans and two pairs of socks--I thought of calling our hapless flunky again, but decided against it. If the University cannot figure out that rooms get cold when the temperature dips into the 30s, can it be expected to turn on the heat--all the while adhering to its procedural requirements--at some ungodly hour of the morning...