The three pieces had been arrayed on my parents' bed while I was in the bath, and I had stood shivering, my fingertips puckered and white, as my mother threaded a length of thick drawstring through the giant waist of the pajamas with a safety pin, gathering up the stiff material bit by bit and then knotting the drawstring tightly at my stomach.
For one thing, the state's taking on the last five years' worth of that city debt -- an obligation that Mr. Bloomberg often recalls when he explains why he does not want to borrow his way out of the current budget crisis -- would be a symbolic as well as a material bit of aid.
The pornographic material bit is unclear.
"It was all about the material: the bits, the stuff," he says, looking directly into the camera.
New regulations introduced after BSE required producers to remove "specified risk material"—the bits in and around the bones and since the beginning of this year labelling rules have tightened further.
The iron was produced in small shaft furnaces as solid lumps, called blooms, and these were then hot forged into bars of wrought iron, a malleable material containing bits of slag and charcoal.
There are theological worries about a genetic reductionism that suggests that we are no more than our smallest material parts the bits of DNA that make up the genome.
Alongside this new material, a bit of Carnegie's original advice remains more or less intact.
She used Army surplus materials, twisted bits of bristly copper wire and weathered canvas strips of discarded conveyor belts from a laundry below her decrepit studio on the Lower East Side.
Japanese artist Monami Ohno has been helping bring the humble packaging material a bit more respect, creating insanely intricate and sometimes rather large sculptures out of just cardboard and adhesive for the past six and a half years.
