Word: clad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Male Rockettes. The few girls in the troupe are fetchingly swaddled in neck-length nylons. The men seem to be clad in flesh-colored BVDs on which someone has apparently traced the entire human nervous system. The net effect is rather unhinging, like watching a platoon of nude male Rockettes undergoing surgery...
Kenya's witch doctors are an impressive lot. Clad in ostrich plumes, tarbooshes, beaded caps, seashell belts and fur aprons, they emit noises even stranger than their appearance as they stalk along with pebble-filled antelope horns, porcupine quills and fly whisks. Their satchels of leopard or monkey skin bulge with the tools of their trade: magical elixirs (miti-shambd), dead and living animals, hammers, chisels and dung. They represent the only form of medical attention paid to nearly 80% of Kenya's 8,000,000 Africans and Asians, despite a government program that has spent...
...deep the passions go. The U.S., as Johnson said last week, is now willing to rewrite the 1903 treaty for the remaining life of the present canal, striking out the hated word sovereignty and giving Panama most of what else it wants, but insisting on some form of iron-clad U.S. control...
...heard her could forget her. Wanda Landowska saw to that. A tiny black-clad priestess, palms pressed together in prayer, she would float in hushed silence to her altar, the harpsichord. A Romantic who played pre-Romantic music, she got shadings and majestic effects seemingly impossible on her instrument, and no one could equal her in bringing to independent life Bach's intertwined melodies. She took great liberties in interpretation, serenely confident of the backing of the dead composer. "You continue to play Bach your way," she told one musician. "I shall continue to play Bach his way. What...
...Kissing Cousins) in nine years, last spring advertised his appearance at a Manhattan nightclub with a 20-ft. by 100-ft. billboard that proclaimed "Sam's the biggest Cooke in town"; of bullet wounds inflicted by a motel proprietress when the singer burst in on her half-clad; in Los Angeles...