Word: wools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Braudy has stitched more than 1,000 interviews into this dismal tale, and she offers her readers some delicious tidbits: Ann in India, ready to stalk tigers in 120 degrees weather, appearing in a wool hunting outfit lined with chinchilla. At a dinner honoring the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, a footman passes potato chips and onion dip with the cocktails. Unfortunately, Braudy's arsenal of adjectives is limited. Families tend to be "wealthy," living in "opulent homes." And there are some unfiltered howlers -- the Duke of "Marlboro," for one. After a while, without the leavening of irony, one begins...
That escapist streak is evident in rave clothing, which tends toward loud primary colors, patterned wool caps and untucked shirts emblazoned with peace signs, happy faces and corporate logos. A key part of the look is "trip toys," or out-of-kilter trinkets and prankish paraphernalia like op-art jewelry, prism eyeglasses and fluorescent body paint. "A trip toy is something that will catch people's attention and make them smile," says Niles Peacock, who attends raves with a ball-point pen that transforms into a tiny soap-bubble blower. "The whole purpose is amusement...
Today a crew-cut Slater walks Denver's streets in a gray wool suit with a small Klan pin on his lapel. He carries a cocky attitude and a black Samsonite briefcase; inside is a copy of American Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell's White Power. His favorite slogan -- "Equal Rights for Everybody; Special Privileges for Nobody" -- even shows a gift for glib phrasemaking...
...those allergy sufferers unconcerned with domestic decor, the National Institutes of Health recommends the following steps to achieve a dust-free, and therefore dust-mite-free, bedroom: Get rid of carpeting, upholstered furniture, heavy curtains, venetian blinds, fuzzy wool blankets and comforters stuffed with wool or feathers. Empty the room, scrub it and everything that is to be returned to it, and thereafter thoroughly clean the room every week. If replacing curtains, hang some that are lightweight and can be laundered weekly. Replace the comfortable chairs with wooden or metal ones that can be scrubbed, keep clothing in plastic zippered...
...archipelago, later extended to 200 miles. Sales of fishing licenses to Asian and European fleets on the hunt for prized illex and loligo squid bring the islands annual revenues of $47 million (in contrast to the $7 million earned by islanders in 1981, mostly from the sale of wool). Ironically, for a population made rich by the indigenous marine life, the kelpers have no fishing fleets of their own; until three years ago, when a swimming pool was installed in the capital, most islanders did not even know how to swim...