Word: silk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play centered on conversations between the recently deceased and their living friends. The voices of Merrill, Doyle, and Hooten combined with dramatic lighting effects, a backdrop of dark colored trees on a silk screen, and the voice of an unseen spirit from backstage...
...psyche themselves for the race different rowers have different styles. "You go out quietly, put your boat in the water and hammer it down there. It's not like football, you know, where you yell and scream and bang your head on a locker," explained Hugh Silk, a freshman rower who will miss the remainder of the season because of a back injury...
Brown focuses on keeping its rate high. Harvard focuses on power, according to Silk. "The race was basically over when we took our standard power 20 just after the 1000 meter mark," Metz said...
...that the precocious boy first displayed his prodigious gift for things scientific, teaching himself the principles of the combustion engine and fixing the palace's generator whenever it went on the blink. To satisfy his insatiable curiosity about a world he was permitted to glimpse only through the silk-fringed curtains of his golden palanquin, the young ruler set up a projector by which he eagerly devoured Tarzan movies, Henry V and, best of all, home movies of his own capital. Often, he recalls, he would take a telescope onto the palace roof and wistfully gaze at the boys...
...just discovered treasure chest. The waist rises on a short black leather skirt, but the hem falls irregularly. A raincoat is made of polyester that feels and falls like inked paper. One pantsuit in atomic-orange wool knit looks like a drill uniform for fashion insurrectionists. Another pantsuit in silk clings and flares in the jacket, rides the waist, then blossoms out in the cuffs, looking, in its mad dappling of colors, like a loft painter's drop cloth. "Everything is so much the couture look, the expensive look, now it's time to rethink again, to find something different...