Word: clothes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Subway posters in Atlanta show a cup of Coke against a backdrop of a straw basket and a red checkered tablecloth. Usually something can be served on a checkered cloth only if Timmy and Lassie and Andy and Opie would eat it; but if the latest ad blitz is as successful as Santa was, the colorizing fanatics going after these shows will soon be dyeing breakfast beverages brown...
...Jesse's colleagues who knows the story of the assassination: "They have no idea how much it haunts him. It's a drop of poison in his glass." Jackson shrugs off the animosity and explains it away with a religious reference. "Everybody wanted a piece of the cloth," he says...
...twisting a long inner-tube box. A historian would later equate the importance of this incident with Newton's observation of a falling apple. Biographer Howard is more restrained and more engaging when he attributes the insight to a "genius for the tactile" born of long experience handling wood, cloth and metal...
From the first glimpse the show speaks in portents. The chief piece of furniture is a preposterously tall highboy, its drawers spilling out cloth and papers and ropes of pearls just as the characters are about to spill out secrets, its surface appearing as unvarnished as the truths to come. Every character with a sexual life is dressed in some variation of off-white -- and looks cool, stylish and slightly soiled. Two ornate sofas are shrouded with crumpled, much used sheets: this is a world of ceaseless, unsatisfying copulation. Although the sides of the stage are heaped with the bric...
...given over to thought about the human condition. Here in Russia these teeming hordes were referred to as "the masses;" in the U.S., the same people would be called "the viewing public." But were they not, in fact, the same? Were not Russians and Americans cut from the same cloth? Were they not, in the end, both human...