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velvet
velvet fabric having a soft, thick, short pile, usually of silk, and a plain twill or satin weave ground. The pile surface is formed by weaving an extra set of warp threads that are looped over wires as in Wilton carpet, the rods being withdrawn after the weft thread is placed, leaving a row of... Read more |
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Lou Reed
Lou Reed Singer, songwriter Velvet Tones Challenging His Audience Loss, Recovery, Reunion Hall of Fame and Reeling Selected discography Sources A 1995 story in Interviewdeclared, |
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Velour
Velour Velours is the French word for velvet, and, like velvet, velour is woven by a special process with looped threads that are cut to form a pile, or textured surface. What distinguishes velour from velvet is the fabric from which it is woven. While velvet is most often made of silk or the... Read more |
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Velvet Crush
Velvet Crush Rock group An American band that is generally categorized as power pop, a musical style that blends ultramelodic, infectious songs with harder-edged musical accompaniment, Velvet Crush has been noted for expanding the genre to include country rock, hard rock, and soft rock, while... Read more |
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Luna
Luna Rock group Luna has suffered over much of its career from comparisons to other bands, initially to founding member Dean Wareham's previous group, Galaxie 500, but more regularly to the Velvet Underground. Yet far from being shamelessly derivative of legendary avant-noise relics,... Read more |
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John Fogerty
JOHN FOGERTY Born: Berkeley, California, 28 May 1945 Genre: Country, Rock Best-selling album since 1990: Blue Moon Swamp (1997) John Fogerty's triumphant solo career has been a puzzling journey. As the celebrated singer/songwriter of the legendary rock group Creedence Clearwater Revival,... Read more |
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Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire Singer, songwriter, actress “Discovered” at Rodeo Cemented Position With Whoever’s in New England Beat Madonna Found Solace From Grief in Music Selected discography Sources Reba McEntire is not one to fall into a musical rut. While she built her reputation on... Read more |
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upholstery
upholstery general term for household fittings, hangings, curtains, cushions, and covers. It refers to stuffed, padded, and spring-cushioned furniture, such as chairs and sofas, or to the usually decorative materials and fabrics that cover them. The first furniture upholstery was probably leather,... Read more |
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Rose Coghlan
Coghlan, Rose (1851–1932), actress. The sister of Charles Coghlan, the “wide‐eyed, velvet‐voiced, caressing, fascinating, divinely‐smiling” leading lady first came to America in 1871 to play in burlesque with Lydia Thompson and her British blondes. From... Read more |
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John Cale
John Cale Singer, songwriter, producer Felt Velvets Contribution Was Minimal Paris 1919 “A Pop Masterpiece” Collaborated With Eno Reuinted With Reed for Warhol Tribute Selected discography Sources In 1968, having become increasingly dissatisfied with his marginal role in the Velvet... Read more |
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George, Grace
...George, Grace (1879–1961), actress. The fair‐haired, blue‐eyed beauty was born in New York and educated at a convent...Lady (1935); and school mistress Mother Hildebrand in The Velvet Glove (1949). George's last appearance was as Mrs. Culver... |
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garter
...thinks evil of it), was adopted as the motto of the order.The Garter as the badge of the Order is a ribbon of dark-blue velvet, edged and buckled with gold, and bearing the above words embroidered in gold, and is worn below the left knee; garters... |
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Something is rotten in Blue Velvet ... an exploration of David Lynch's Blue...
...Lynch's controversial 1986 film Blue Velvet, through its unexpected parallels...violated ear. In both Hamlet and Blue Velvet, the young hero's investigation...duality of his world. Lynch describes Blue Velvet as 'about a guy ... |
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Blue velvet.
Blue Velvet When David Lynch, the director of Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune and the new Blue Velvet, wants to share his bad dreams with us, he doesn't fool around. Blue Velvet is horrifying in ways that genre horror... |
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Why David Lynch's `Blue Velvet' is a classic.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
...Mommy" and tells her, "Baby wants blue velvet." Dorothy responds by making him chew on the sash of her blue velvet robe. It only gets weirder...the kids are asleep before popping "Blue Velvet" into the DVD player. Though... |
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David Lynch's Blue Velvet
...thing. David Lynch's 1986 movie Blue Velvet quite trashes that model. Everything...decipher is redundant. In fact, Blue Velvet recalls what the theorist Dick...sequence (with its white-white fence, blue-blue sky, red-red ... |
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'BLUE VELVET' IS MIXED BAG.(Weekend)
Byline: Jackie Demaline "Blue Velvet" is impossible - impossibly perverse...a movie if he didn't. Most of "Blue Velvet" is like that. Dorothy grabs...reprised rendition of Bobby Vinton's "Blue Velvet." Since it becomes ... |
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Disturbing `Blue Velvet' is marred by its flippancy
Blue Velvet (STAR) Jeffrey Beaumont Kyle MacLachlan...Classified R. At the Fine Arts Theater. "Blue Velvet" contains scenes of such raw emotional...that is sincere, honest and true. But "Blue Velvet" surrounds them with a story ... |
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DVD REVIEW: 'Blue Velvet' even better on DVD
...When originally released in 1986, "Blue Velvet" was so ahead of its time that it...to latch on to the film. Now, "Blue Velvet" is regarded as one of director...fitting than now to finally give "Blue Velvet" the "special ... |
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DVD REVIEW: Flawless 'Blue Velvet' special edition delights
...other, it may be David Lynch's "Blue Velvet," the acclaimed 1986 psychodrama...recalling the aesthetic landscape of "Blue Velvet," one first pictures the...this, the most famous scene in "Blue Velvet, " has gone a long way ... |
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'BLUE VELVET' ALREADY CLASSIC; '52 PICK UP' A GOOD DEAL
BLUE VELVET Directed and written by David...after its theatrical release, "Blue Velvet" already seems a classic...its own. Even on cassette, "Blue Velvet" seems too violent and...first time around -- skies so ... |
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He's got that '(Blue) Velvet' touch the big picture
...Merrillville.(PHOTO - Color) (BLUE VELVET PRODUCTIONS)It's hard to associate...with kinky stuff. But Vinton's "Blue Velvet'' fueled a twisted piece...excite anybody. But if I go from 'Blue Velvet' to perversion, it's gonna... |
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