Word: velveteen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daniel J. Flood Rural Health Center and a Daniel J. Flood Elderly Center. All were named in honor of a theatrically flamboyant Representative who struts around Congress like a peacock. He slicks down his hair with stickum, sports a villainous-looking waxed mustache and favors wildly eccentric clothes-velveteen suits, ruffled shirts, patent-leather shoes and satin-lined capes. But despite his outlandish appearance, Dapper Dan Flood, 74, has amassed immense power in his 30 years on Capitol Hill. As a member of the so-called College of Cardinals-the 13 Appropriation subcommittee chairmen -he can influence a large share...
...apartments in New York City and San Francisco were tarted up with red draperies, dressing tables trimmed in black velveteen and Toulouse-Lautrec posters. At night, women lured men to the hideaways and fed them LSD or marijuana, while other men watched the action through two-way mirrors and tape-recorded the sounds...
...said an Eighth Army officer on duty at Panmunjom. Spitting, name-calling and obscene gesturing, he added, are "almost a point of honor for them." When off duty, the 43 U.S. officers at Panmunjom mingle at an officers' club called The Monastery, where each man has a brown, velveteen monk's robe and hood that he dons for elaborate induction ceremonies. Each officer also owns a black baseball cap, which is hung on a hook above the bar. The most veteran member of the group hangs his hat on a hook around the corner, and when his time...
...China, that sells for only $1.50 at San Francisco's Obiko Boutique. A detachable black leather pouch, originally designed by Manhattan's Ruza for the U.S. ski team (both sexes), hangs from either a canvas belt or a shoulder strap. Other designs include squares of velvet, printed velveteen canteens, hand-painted leather boxes and oblongs of beads...
Even human disasters are transfigured into something inhumanly beautiful. The adulterous executive leaves his windowless bedroom to seek aid, and enters his duplex office to find it on fire--huge velveteen curtains, bargello chairs, plush carpeting. His clothing catches fire as well. We lose sight of the human perspective as the director shifts into slow motion and we watch only a vaguely human figure on fire stagger through a room, framed by flames as floor, ceiling and walls burn. (Early in the film there are a couple of graphic shots of charred skin, but--after these few nauseating moments...