Word: clad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sweating heavily in the noonday sun, whipped out a large white handkerchief and mopped the vice-presidential brow. "He is the greatest Greek," cried another. In a doorway of the family house, a two-story whitewashed stone and stucco affair built 161 years ago, Agnew met his black-clad cousin Anastasia and Anastasia's 19-year-old son Demokratis, who presented him with a bouquet of red gladioli. Inside-while at the doors a crowd of people claiming to be relatives waved invitation cards and tried vainly to get in-Agnew's family served him stewed fruit...
...sweetly sensuous, cheek-kissing Mary Magdalene, a quintet of Jewish high priests who call for a "final solution" to their Jesus problem, and King Herod?a queen in full drag. There is also the traitor Judas, played by a black whose considerable talent and limitless energy sometimes upstage Jesus. Clad in silver jockey shorts, Judas returns from the dead on a butterfly-winged acrobatic bar to ask the doomed Jesus "Why you let the things you did get so out of hand?" He does not sing Swing Low, Sweet Iscariot. But, over a heavy blues-rock beat, he does sound...
...concern, however brief, that must be more elevating than wondering whether Lauren Bacall will lose her boy friend. There is also the consolation, not inconsiderable these days, that things might easily have been worse. For a while Tom O'Horgan was toying with the idea of a "vinyl-clad, hip Christ crucified on the handle bars of a Harley-Davidson...
...damage, of course, had already been done by a combination of error and omission. A nation mesmerized by the pictures from Attica of a mass of exotically clad inmates, mainly black, holding hostages, All of whom were white, had generally accepted the initial report that the hostages who died had all had their throats slit. Some of the early reports also stated that several of the white dead had had their genitals severed and had suffered other forms of extreme physical abuse...
...drizzly overcast morning last week, a radio loudspeaker snapped out the order to attack. Through the stinging mist of CS pepper gas dropped by Viet Nam-style helicopters, yellow-clad troopers set off a barrage of rifle fire from atop 30-ft. prison walls. More than 500 officers?armed with shotguns, rifles, pistols and clubs ?charged into the crowded compound, shooting as they ran. Sporadic firing continued for nearly an hour. When the onesided battle was over, lawmen representing the State of New York had killed 26 convicts and nine of 38 hostages that the inmates had seized...