Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie is a patchwork of pop culture - its title derived from a Tim Buckley tune, its sound track laden with song fragments and snippets of news broadcasts, its pastel photography reminiscent of countless TV commercials. Monte Hellman, director of Two-Lane Blacktop, even appears in a cameo role. All this does not amount to much more than another episode of Sunset Strip angst, but there are reassuring indications throughout that Director James Frawley and Scenarist Floyd Mutrux are capable of better work...
...longer adequate for even the plainest Jane: now the enthusiast can saunter into an expensive boutique like New York City's Billingsley, be interviewed by freelance Costume Designer Linda Sampson, hand her a battered set of denims and return two weeks later to pick up a sort of patchwork personality portrait, sewn together by Linda for $200 or so. Customers do not seem to worry that her interpretations of their personalities will be too freaky. "Basically," she says, "people will wear anything they can get away with." New Yorker Jann Johnson, 24, carries the idea a logical step further...
There is of course great hope for the Cubans. The era of patchwork reforms must soon end; this reality is staring in Castro's face. At the end of last year's sugar harvest, Fidel gave a humble, highly self-critical speech. Hopefully he will come to recognize in his revaluation that the people through their own institutions must control their own existence...
...idea for museum fashions occurred to Jenny Bell in January when she heard that the Brooklyn Museum was having a housecleaning and went to have a look. She returned home with a 56-year-old embroidered Egyptian silk scarf and an 81-year-old American patchwork quilt. With scissors, thread and a bit of black velvet trimming for the quilt, two handsome evening skirts emerged. A few more finds and Jenny Bell had enough to sell to Saks Fifth Avenue. Mindful of her 13 successful years as a Seventh Avenue designer, Saks bought the lot at first sight. Displayed...
Thus, even after the current crisis subsides, no patchwork solution is likely to long maintain an international monetary system based on the weakened dollar. The U.S. obviously needs to strengthen its currency, but how can it do so? There are many courses of action open to the Nixon Administration, but several have their own drawbacks...