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...simply by the kind of clothes you wear, or the bed linen you use, wouldn't you? The Handloom Weavers Development Society in Kerala , India , hopes so. The nonprofit organization - based in Thumbod, a tiny village of swaying palms an hour outside the state capital of Trivandrum - has infused yarn with organic herbs and plant extracts, and claims that regular contact with cloth made from this material will relieve itches, rashes and other skin disorders. With a sharp eye for the contemporary obsession with Eastern traditional medicine, the weavers have dubbed their cloth ayurvastra - referring to the ayurvedic principles...
...style where you can count every nascent hair on a teenage lip, Burns' images will have your skin crawling even as you marvel at their beauty. Masterfully using the medium's ability to carry both visual and literary metaphor, and mixing in the kicks of a top-notch exploitation yarn, Burns' Black Hole will suck you in. A Trip Through a 'Black Hole' 10/21/2005
...bulk on a severe diet that slimmed the plot without starving it; find a strong narrative line that, as director Mike Newell says, you can "hang stuff on like a necklace"; and make a movie that fit into the seven-novel structure but could stand alone as a ripping yarn. "Goblet of Fire was by far the most difficult thing I've ever done in my life," says screenwriter Steve Kloves. "It took two years to make that work--mostly trying to decide what to leave behind...
...WEAR THE SAME PONCHO YOU WORE WHEN YOU LEFT PRISON? When I left prison, I wore the poncho because it was a cool night and it matched my jeans and it was just gorgeous and caught everybody's eye. A couple days later, a very industrious company that sells yarn put the pattern on their website, and 1 million designs were downloaded. They let us put an invitation on their site asking anybody who made a poncho to come be in the audience of the show. We got between 10,000 and 15,000 responses within an hour, and just...
...myth of Tusitala has also undergone a workout. But you'd expect nothing less from the story of how one of the world's tallest tale-tellers came to an island of natural yarn-spinners (fagogo is the Samoan word for their rich and digressive oral tradition). Setting out from San Francisco in 1888 with wife Fanny, 11 years his senior, Stevenson sought both material for his writing and warm weather for his ailing lungs. After stops along the way, Stevenson began to pine for "an island with a profile," and found it in the natural peaks and waterfalls...