Word: clad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like many sweet old buffers, he admired authority. He painted the artists lining up for the Salon des Independants as an army of black-clad troops, carrying paintings of identical size; it was a parody of the military metaphor of the avant-garde. Rousseau wanted honors, like his heroes. When the French government sent him a decoration by mistake he would not send it back, and obstinately wore its violet rosette for the rest of his life. It was the Palmes Academiques--a serendipitous fluke, in view of his obsession with exotic scenes of distant jungles...
...every working day, single lines about Gorbachev grew to paragraphs, and head shots became full- length photographs of a well-tailored, energetic man. Reagan took notice, knowing that Konstantin Chernenko would be dead sooner than later. Gorbachev's good-humored outing in Britain last December with his fur-clad, stylish wife provided plenty of new material. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stored up a lot of impressions from her 3 1/2 hours of meetings with Gorbachev, and she carried them all across the Atlantic with her a month ago and constructed for Reagan the first flesh-and-blood portrait...
...with nothing worse that a last-ditch counter attack from Canadian air-masses to worry about, this season's trends have devoted themselves to more fun-to-wear garb. Which is all the better, since few people want to glance at lovely young ladies clad in stormwindows...
...Andropov's death 15 months later, Amfitheatrof once again maintained a vigil in St. George's Hall, "watching Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher applying body English during an earnest conversation with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, and noting the poignantly graceful passage of sari- clad Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi." Amfitheatrof was covering Mikhail Gorbachev's successful visit to Britain last December when Ustinov's death caused Gorbachev to rush back to Moscow. Amfitheatrof also hurried back, canceling plans to join his wife and two daughters for Christmas in Rome...
...dance. The choreography is sensitive to exactly how little children work. The dance entitled "Three Boys" is more a game in a school yard than a formal dance with conscious steps. It is about playing and skipping, fighting and pushing--all the essentials of a grade school friendship. Clad in appropriate jeans and sneakers, the young dancers run, jump and clap, acting out our own past lunchtime recesses...