Word: bonnet
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...help, and tribal leaders say he angrily told them they'd never see their acreage if they didn't go along with his demands (he denies the threats). But tribal officer ARCHIE HOFFMAN did see something else that could be trouble for Landow: an impressive Sioux war bonnet in the reception area of Landow's office that appeared to have been fashioned from the feathers of federally protected eagles. Now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating and has already questioned several witnesses. If Landow is found in violation, penalties could range from forfeiture of the headdress...
...perspective owes much to the work of Swiss archaeologist Charles Bonnet, who has spent the past 24 years excavating Kerma, the seat of Africa's greatest empire (outside Egypt) between 2500 B.C. and 1500 B.C. Bonnet acknowledges that he went to Sudan initially to find Egyptian civilization. "But step by step," he confesses, "I came to understand that the Nubian civilizations are really extraordinary. There might be Egyptian influences, but there is a Nubian originality and a Nubian identity...
...years ago, Bonnet excavated a funerary temple in Kerma that powerfully illustrates Nubia's synthesis of frontier influences. On one interior wall he found Egyptian motifs, including Nile fishing boats, bullfights and an enormous crocodile. Another wall was covered with rows of giraffes and hippopotamuses--African wildlife rarely seen in ancient Egypt...
...marvelous performer," enthuses Miller. "She's up to the role, and yet she looks like a teenager. She's as good as it gets." Ryder, who is once again co-starring with her Age of Innocence partner, Daniel Day-Lewis, will undoubtedly be dispensing with the bodice-and-bonnet look for her next project, the fourth installment of the Alien series with Sigourney Weaver...
Nation, who visited Harvard in 1902, was mobbed by students in Sanders Theatre who grabbed at her bonnet and shoved cigarettes in her face after a speech in which she preached abstinence from alcohol and tobacco...