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David Kanelb's Words Vanishing that was before the attack on three-letter words from nursing home direclors.women's liber-, ationists and law To them I enforcers be nothing; more than a "senior citizen," "elderly gentleperson" or "senile and potentially dangerous English language. money is on those "Oh. sty CUB you sec." Francis Scott Kej You hear a lot about four- letter words these days and people are pretty much divided into camps, those use them and those who would like to have them eliminated from the subject." Ours is a tree economy, but wno jis it not strange that people raut to do away with no longer ask you to BUY any- a year or two you will, thing? They prefer taking you! Hjtjegin to see four-letter words' for a "trial" "sappear. The evidence is over- demonstration" or an "invest-! tt lelming 'ment opportunity f-Must as the Ervm committee the political scene peo-' starting with the little ones i agree on anything a iSind working its up. so too it is that someone the committee to abolish nj a LIE.

But you can, letter words. Already it has reac an i lste for a'month, been successful in removmg'hear of -contradictions." -mis- 1 many three-letter words from representations" and "inopera-. popular usage. tions" (or something like that)! 1 first became aware of the, thou ht TM ver a lain old fash 'i Banishing three-letter LIE while attending a recent week- The LIE has gone the waj end conference. According to of the WAR in Vietnam, the the program, nq one ever MET.

RED in Red china the IRS Reconvened. In the discussions! in the honie and tne SEX no one dared ASK a question (Sex education. Everyone knows He inquired or requested they are still there but their ification or orientation. names have been changed. At the meeting everyone was Museum To Show Wall Hangings, Fiber Sculpture Wall hangings and fiber sculpture by two handweavers will be shown at the University of Iowa Museum of Art July 5-29.

Cynthia Schira of Lawrence, and Sherri Smith of Ft. Collins, will each show about half a dozen of the unusual art forms they have created from fiber. sanne, Switzerland, as well as in many major weaving exhibitions in this country. Ms. Schira is also represented in the th biennial at Lausanne, which opened this week.

The recipient of a BFA degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA degree in weaving from the University Both women will teach Kansas, Ms. Schira also stud- design workshops for the UI partment of Home Economics this summer. Ms. Smith will instruct 'Textile Design II: Weaving" from June 18 July 6, and Ms. Schira, "Textile Design III: Forms and Fibers" from July 9 27.

Naomi Schedl, an assistant professor of textile design at UI, is coordinating the workshops. Ms. Smith is an instructor in weaving at Colorado State Uni uith honors from Stanford University and MFA degree in ied tapestry weaving at Aubusson, France, and printed textiles at the University of Baroda in India. Her master's thesis dealt with ancient Peruvian textiles. She is at home with both traditional techniques and materials, such as wool and tapestry, and with contemporary materials.

Unusual in the latter category are her pieces which incorporate strips of aluminum, of- BTinTrt ten combined with fur or feath ers. Ms. Schira's fiber works are weaving and textile design in Objects USA, the Johnson the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Wax Craft Collection, and in Ms. Smith uses multiple harness ooms, which have up to FIBER is the title of this fiber sculpture by Sherri Smith, an instructor in weaving at Colorado Slate University, Ft.

Collins. Half a dozen Mall hangings and fiber sculptures by Ms. Smith Mill be shown at the University of Iowa Museum of Art July hesitant to SAY anything. He either alluded, expressed, reiterated or suggested. And rather than ADD to a comment each participant preferred to inter-' Time was when our nation's leaders were affectionately or otherwise referred to by three- letter combinations.

Do ring 24 harnesses, making possible the weaving of many layers of fabric at once. Her works have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and at the 5th and 6th biennials of the Centre International de la Tapisser- ie Ancienne et Moderne in Lau- collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Marshall Field and Co. and the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Neb. They have been shown in many designers' and craftsmen's exhibitions. The recipeint of a Textron Fellowship, Ms.

Schira has also held a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. She is-'the author of a number of articles for hand- weaving publications. WALL HANGING Dyed wool woven and quilted with stitchery makes up this wall hanging by Cynthia Schira. Five wall hangings and fiber sculptures by Ms. Schira will be shown at the University of Iowa Museum of Art July 5-29.

She will teach a textile design workshop at UI July 9-27. a bell? FDR, HST. IKE, ject or supplement. fBJ. Now try RMN.

See Although there was no short-! what mean? age of food or drink at Sfionference no one ATE. We at- "plenary convocations in It would be bad enough i people shelved our i three-letter words and kept thej Driver's License Exam Schedules Clip and Save JOHNSON COUNTY Mon- dining room." And while things they refer to, such da Tuesday, Wednesday, 8 'no one HIT the BAR there were MAN, WAR, LIE and MRS. But "regroupings of a -forces and refreshments in the 'Jfeception room." Those of us at the conference "who wanted the whole END would still be there except for a knowledgeable friend's 'ability to explain that "culminating plenary session and eval- sometimes they take away both by using all our OIL and GAS and contaminating the AIR we breathe. You might be interested in helping me organize a society for the preservation of three letter words. If so you had bet- uation" meant that ter act now.

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