Sacrificial nylons arrived in their hundreds as gifts; much was made of the dusty state of the jewels that visiting royals wore.
Mr. Portugal, who had been in the bathroom when the police arrived, came out with hands bound in nylon rope, the authorities said.
One of the visitors, Marlene Orjuela, told the Bogota daily newspaper El Tiempo that the captives were tied together with nylon nooses around their necks, to stop them escaping if the army arrived.
A few weeks later, the tie arrived: a long swath made entirely of white interlocking rings of nylon.
Some of my students are sleeping under nothing but nylon, on a hard pebble beach, in the snow, just yards from the very ocean they arrived from.
Some of my students are sleeping under nothing but nylon, on a hard pebble beach, in the snow, just metres from the very ocean they arrived from.
She might have arrived anywhere: all that was certain was her own self, lying on her side, her salty smell and her warmth, her knees pulled up to her skinny chest inside the cocoon of her brushed-nylon nightdress.
She is outside on the slope, enjoying the wintery smell of the the dark-blue night when Sonia Holmes arrives, inappropriately dressed in a skirt and nylons.
Even today, tour groups arrive from mines in the interior wide-eyed men interior wide-eyedocks, and loafers.
Even today, tour groups arrive from mines in the interior — wide-eyed men in shorts, nylon socks, and loafers.
