Word: clad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...purple-clad Crusaders regrouped at halftime, though, and gave Harvard and its dyspeptic fans all they could ask for. The bruising defense held the multiflex scoreless in the second half, with linebacker Curt Bletzer leading the assault...
Bill Wilkinson, Imperial Wizard, climbs out of his silver Caddy and, clad in a blue business suit, strides to the platform. Backed by an American flag and a Klan banner, surrounded by hoods (literal use), he launches into his speech. Starting slowly, he declares, "I'm a segregationist, and I will die a segregationist." Warming to his task, this former electrical contractor explains that mixing the races will never work because "you cannot make unequal people equal." His philosophical cards on the table, Wilkinson's job becomes easier--his only remaining task is to suggest the future course of public...
Embodied on stage, this selective vision of pastoral proves hilarious. Take Belgrader's constant play on the so-called "pathetic fallacy"--the idea that nature responds to human emotion. Five young girls clad in fake-looking foliage represent the whispering forest, and their carefully timed reactions provide some of the show's funniest moments: dozing off during the recitation of tiresome love poetry, moaning and panting as the handsome Orlando passes among them, leaning over as if to puke during an especially noxious dance number from the cow-girl Audrey. They are funny in themselves, and funny for their ludicrously...
...hull-making sheds across the yard, workers were doing just that. All morning long, blue-clad men and women trooped up the rickety stairs to a grimy foreman's office to sign up for membership in the new unions...
...sticks in people's mind." The city is actually just a suburb of Daytona, but he says, "There is nothing romantic about the words Daytona Beach." He crisscrosses the U.S., annually addressing 200 investment seminars. His 2½-hour lecture is a circus of ventriloquism, juggling and bikini-clad girls. He tosses about biblical exhortations like: "As Matthew says, 'The Eye is the Lamp of the Body!' If my eye is on the right things, the market rewards me." And sometimes there is bizarre advice: sell California real estate fast because the San Andreas Fault is about...