Word: silk
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...limits to visitors, and the exact location of the grave is not marked. But visitors will be able to stand at the water's edge, look at the house, tour a museum (built in former stables) and view Diana's schoolgirl letters, her princess outfits and her stunning 1981 silk bridal dress. Nearly 150,000 tickets -- called "invitations to visit" -- have been sold. (It is said some 2,000 are still available and that there is an active black market for the invitations.) The cost is $15 for adults, $12 for senior citizens and $8 for children...
...early 1960s, he rattled art culture with garish silk screens of Hollywood sirens and Campbell's soup cans, of Sing Sing's electric chair and car-crash scenes pulled from the pages of the daily papers. The jolt of the work was its off-register blear, its bright-crude colors; but more so, his icy message that the whole world was product. If everything is reducible to an assembly-line image for sale, then Marilyn, Brillo, cows, Elvis and tabloid death are all equal--and equally convertible to cash. Warhol summed up his career with the words, "I started...
...Since silk was being diverted to parachutes, weendured thick cotton lisle stockings instead ofsilk, unless we had a boyfriend who could buy ussilk stockings at the PX. Most of us opted forsaddle shoes and bobby sox. We wore genteelknee-length skirts, with tailored white blousesand baggy wool sweaters. Never were we allowed towear slacks to class unless there was a ragingblizzard outside...
Further evidence of Kopple's sagacity appears in the dialogues she has chosen to include in her film. Any movie ultimately rides on what is or is not cut, and Kopple and editor Lawrence Silk have chosen impressively candid, crystalline moments through which Allen and his companions represent themselves. His assertion that "I just don't want to be where I am at any given moment" speaks as informatively about his personal-life problems as it does about his approach to touring...
After graduation in 1995, McCartney launched her own small line in London, building it almost entirely around sensuous collections of lingerie-modeled dresses and swingy silk skirts. "My mom always collected thrift-shop stuff--especially Italian slips," McCartney recalls. "I've always loved underwear and antique fabrics and lace for all their soft texture." Her famous surname did inevitably create buzz. Supermodel friends wore her clothes, and before long, a McCartney frock became a must-have item for the in vogue everywhere...