Word: silk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...floor of a four-family house, ripped off part of the roof of a sports arena, uprooted trees. It mangled a Ferris wheel in an amusement park, then slanted northeast-straight into the city's center. There, in a 3-sq.-mi. sector, years ago St. Louis' "silk stocking'' district, the twister changed its swath-cutting pattern and skip-bombed its havoc: it ripped up some of the same buildings that were wrecked in the St. Louis tornado of 1927 (which killed 78), dropped at random like a cleaver in some blocks, spewed rubble into great...
...spangled black velvet gown, and she sings the song with gay sophistication. Blonder Lilo bounces about the Plaza's Persian Room in brief white tights, and sings La Vie with brassy triumph. But tiny (4 ft. 10 in.), frizzle-topped Edith Piaf wears a shapeless black silk dress and sings the tune (which she herself wrote twelve years ago) as a lament for everything that ever went wrong with love in Paris or anywhere else. Aging (43) Piaf seems hardly to have changed since she first appeared in Manhattan in 1947. Suave Vicky and wriggling Lilo only serve...
Psyche-Semantic. Slinking away in disgrace, Henderson and Romilayu next camp with an ugly-mannered tribe called the Wariri. Here Henderson redeems himself by lifting a previously unbudgeable wooden idol during a riotous rainmaking ritual. He is acclaimed as Sungo, the Rain King, blushingly dons the transparent green silk bloomers of his office and becomes a friend and confidant of Dahfu, the Wariri's chief...
...Museum of Fine Arts is outstanding. This 12th century masterpiece tells the complex story of an ancient war that matters little. What does matter is the opportunity it gives to roam outside the body in a dream world of blue, green and gold, moving to the subtle, silk-smooth music of the painter's brush. The almost full-scale detail opposite shows a typical climax in that music when the invading army winds menacingly forward to the water's edge, a captain on a black horse prances into view, and a gnarled pine dips its obscuring wing...
...passes out Kents to neighboring tables. At poker and pinochle (he is an indifferent player), he shuffles out samples of new cigarette blends for informal taste polls. His other pleasures are simple, though his tastes are rich. He dresses expensively, favors dark blue suits and blue or grey silk ties that blend well with his heavy-lidded, blue-grey eyes, tans his skin under a sun lamp, plays up his graceful hands by wearing transparent nail polish, a star sapphire ring, a thick gold watchband, huge cuff links...