Word: silk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hollander) and Eliza Doolittle (Tompsett) turn in standardized and mediocre performances. Tompsett's voice is low and well-modulated with a slight Southern softening, and though she tries to shrill, her slummy "Garn..." resonates with upper-class tonality. You can't make a sow's ear out of a silk purse. Only in scenes when Eliza is supposed to be furious with Higgins does Tompsett cast of her placid demeanor, and then she sizzles: her eyes splash cyanide when she seethes, "Just You Wait, 'enry 'iggins." She cannot sustain her fury, however; when Higgins dishes strawberry tarts to the bird...
...Greeks Don't Want No Freaks or the sly ironies of The Disco Strangler (a collaboration with String Player Don Felder) and King of Hollywood, in which a hard-hustling mogul is nailed neatly in two fleet lines: "He's just another power junky/ Just another silk-scarf monkey...
...tight at the waist and in the back, loose at the hips and thighs, tapered at the ankle. Since summer the new silhouette, mostly in denim and corduroy, has been cropping up increasingly, combined with close-fitting T shirts, dressy silk blouses, and short boots. Response to the new look so far has been liveliest in New York City and Miami, where buyers for department stores are having trouble keeping up with demand. French versions of the baggy jeans, dubbed "Texas," sell for more than $75 at such trendy New York stores and boutiques as Bendel and Henry Lehr...
...week's end Volcker had the measures that he wanted and called a mid-morning meeting of the board's governors in the Fed's second-floor boardroom. There, against a backdrop of silk wall coverings and an enormous blue-and-gold map of the U.S., the governors mulled over their chairman's proposals for one hour, then two, then through lunch and on into the afternoon...
Astride the silk and spice routes, the region, known as Bactria in ancient times, came under the influence of numerous cultures: Indian, Mongolian, Parthian (a Persian people), nomadic (from the Eurasian steppes) and even Roman. All collided with the Hellenistic Greek domination of Alexander the Great, who conquered Bactria in 331 B.C., and his Seleucid successors. Two centuries later, the Greco-Bactrian kingdom was overrun by nomadic groups, among them the Parthians, Saka from the steppes and five Central Asiatic tribes called the Yiieh-Chih...