Word: woven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paper gallery, Scarfe borrowed from London's elegantly In Savita shop, owned by Mrs. Meher Vakeel, who lent her own gold-and-silver-threaded theater coat for John's raiment. Ringo wears silk tweed, with jute-thread-embroidered collar and wooden prayer beads. George sports a peasant-woven, hand-washable cotton from India. Paul's jacket is made of $98-a-yard pure-gold-threaded fabric originally woven for the ceremonial robes of Tibet's Dalai Lama, who had to flee his throne before he could take delivery. The background rug, Persian but of Indian design...
Sugar & Stone. Before long, Kroyer was off on his own. Noting the wartime shortage of elastic, he invented an ingenious substitute of wire and thread, sold it to Danish textilemakers for $15,000. A flood of gizmos followed-bicycle rim linings made of woven paper, which bike-happy Danes found would save wear on tires, paper hammocks, one of the first pressure cookers to appear in Europe, even a skillet with special grease-catching depressions to improve frying of steaks. That lowly item has been cooking up brisk sales in Denmark and seven other countries for more than 15 years...
...Cohen Ltd. is as tightly man aged as its products are woven. Stock is held by Bonchy Cohen and his brother-in-law. Bonchy runs the show, though he is self-deprecating about his role in the company's 55-year performance. "What attracted you to the industry, Mr. Cohen?" he asks himself aloud. Then he replies: "My father was the boss." Bonchy 's father, David, immigrated to London from Vilna (now in the U.S.S.R.), where, at the age of nine, he was set to work in a cap factory by his father, who spent his own days...
...queen as Elizabeth I. She became an atheist after her mother told her that her afflictions were brought about by a wrathful God who visited the sins of the fathers on the sons. In later life, she developed an odd, quasi-mystical faith of her own, and she has woven its demons and angels, its swans and minarets into her patchwork chronicles. She learned how to sew because, though an invalid, she was forced to serve as her father's assistant in his tailor shop during World...
This is such stuff as bad dreams are made on; and in Argentine Composer Alberto Ginastera's new opera Bomarzo, it is appropriately woven into the gripping nightmare of a tortured spirit. Commissioned by the Washington Opera Society and given its world première last week at Washington's Lisner Auditorium, Bomarzo is based on a prizewinning novel by Buenos Aires Art Critic Manuel Mujica Lainez, who also wrote the libretto. In 15 taut, hallucinatory scenes that take place mostly in the mind of Pierfrancesco Orsini, Renaissance Duke of Bomarzo, it flashes back over the events...