Word: chadors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ringleaders gathered 300 selected students, thereafter known as Student Followers of the Imam's Line, and briefed them on the battle plan. To break the chains locking the embassy's gates, a female student was given a pair of metal cutters that she could hide beneath her chador...
...most Americans, the Islamic Republic of Iran is known for denouncing the Great Satan U.S., swearing out fatwas on any renegade soul and defining women's rights as the privilege of wearing a chador. For two decades, Iran has been, notoriously, fascism with a cleric's face. So it is a conundrum and a wonder that the republic has allowed the production of highly sophisticated films that are both touching, in the style of Italian postwar neorealism, and at least implicitly critical of aspects of the ruling theocracy. How do Iran's auteurs pull off this double feat? Frequently...
...Betty Currie: A chador, or "intern smuggler," the cloak that covers a woman from head...
...role models. In fact, it should be noted at once that at least five of the men on the list were opponents, in one way or another, of women's rights: Hitler, with his famed Kinder, Kuche, Kirche policy; Khomeini, the fashion expert who brought back the chador; Reagan, with his hostility to abortion rights and the ERA; the sweet but incorrigibly patriarchal Pope John Paul...
...Muslim law, stockpiled for these set-piece processions. The government brings in the protesters, pulling volunteers out of restaurants to join. But the marchers are expressing genuine anger, and most of it is aimed at America. "Our babies die because of you!" shouts a woman dressed in a black chador with a tiny weeping child in her arms. "We need peace and milk, not war!" cries another. "We have nothing left," chimes in a third. "War will only destroy us all over again." Their faces contort in fury and frustration as they grab our sleeves, desperate for money and attention...