Word: silk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most New Yorkers, from silk-stocking districts to scabrous ghettos, responded with neighborliness and even bravery. But what shocked the city, and much of the world, was that tens of thousands of blacks and Hispanics poured from their tenements and barrios?in 16 areas?to produce an orgy of looting. In Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto, in Manhattan's Harlem, in the South Bronx, the violence and plundering approached the levels of the 1968 riots after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The cry echoed through the ghettos: "It's Christmastime, it's Christmastime!" But to Abe Beame...
Today, Luscomb is 90 years old. She lives on a quiet, tree-lined Cambridge street in a turquoise-grey house with a white front porch, an 11-member commune. Luscomb opens the door to visitors, a smiling grandmotherly figure wearing baggy black cords, a cream silk blouse and turquoise-and-silver jewelry. She peers rather hesitantly through clear pale-pink-rimmed spectacles but she moves quickly and lightly, even on a summery afternoon when the heat seems to slow every movement...
Cyrk--from the Polish word for circus--is a small silk screen design studio in Rockport, owned by two businessmen who met tending bar four years ago. Greg Shlopak and Paul Butman feel they successfully combine creativity and business: mostly, they produce T-shirts, those ubiquitous billboards for the body. The shop works to capacity--over 100,000 T-shirts will be printed this year, double last year's figure...
...polyester silk screen itself is stretched and tacked onto a wooden frame. Artwork is converted into positives which are enlarged or reduced as necessary. In a process much faster than the original method, which used sunlight, an intense light source burns the outline of the positive into the screen, which has been coated with a light sensitive emulsion. The area covered by the positive stays soft, allowing the ink to penetrate it. Excess emulsion is hosed off, and the ink is squeegeed through the screen onto T-shirts which then pass through a dryer...
...assembly line of workers prints the T-shirts manually and folds and boxes them. All the workers at Cyrk are former or present art students who are encouraged to develop their own silk screen projects. To meet heavy summertime demands they work staggered shifts from 8 a.m. to midnight. As the business grows, the owners will have to decide whether to replace labor with costly machines. They also foresee some kind of profit sharing plan. But for now, during a T-shirt boom, Cyrk, their private circus, means bread...