Word: needlepoint
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...group of women sit quietly chatting, their heads bowed over needlepoint and knitting, in the gracious parlor at Bourn Hall. The mansion's carved stone mantelpieces, rich wood paneling and crystal chandeliers give it an air of grandeur, a reflection of the days when it was the seat of the Earl De La Warr. In the well-kept gardens behind the house, Indian women in brilliant saris float on the arms of their husbands. The verdant meadows of Cambridgeshire lie serenely in the distance. To the casual observer, this stately home could be an elegant British country hotel...
Within the troubled mind of Sara Jane Moore, 52, there lies a dichotomy. As a radical marching to her own confused manifesto, she was sentenced to life for trying to kill President Gerald Ford in 1975. But there is also apparently Sara Jane Moore, the needlepoint-loving homebody. Securely imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution in Pleasanton, Calif., she seems to be the model of middle-aged matronliness. Says Moore: "I'm just a typical little old lady in her fifties." And in her jail cell...
After the batterings of Selma and Viet Nam, several assassinations and summers of psychedelic overload, the country needed a warm bath and a bit of soothing. What it got instead was a fresh, hard needlepoint shower from the ranks?indeed, from the home. It was a little too much. Doors slammed, windows rattled shut. The national circuits had temporarily shorted out, and, in the prevailing gloom, the feminist torches looked less like beacons than
...genuine pride it feels about the quality of its covers, the magazine has made these original works of art available for loan or exhibit. Judging by their responses. TIME's readers have been appreciative of the astonishing variety of styles and mediums-painting, drawing, sculpture, print, collage, needlepoint, photography-used by the artists who have contributed to the magazine's 3,092 issues. Last week the curtain went up on a new show of 104 TIME covers at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, on the distinguished occasion of the city's tercentenary. Developed by TIME...
...wines, crêpes, champagne. Bishop tinkles his glass and affectionately tells everyone how Muni had set the world record in attending schools no one had ever heard of. Like many a deb before her, Mimi is not obsessed with academe. She favors tennis, jogging and "a lot of needlepoint." She spent a year at a school high enough in the Swiss Alps to ensure that everyone majored in skiing, and she also attended Alfred University in upstate New York, where she had heard that they had a great ceramics department. "I used to do a lot of pottery...