Word: clad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even for this peculiar presidential election, it was a week of bizarre happenings. At a $125-a-plate fund-raising dinner in San Francisco, Independent John Anderson sat stunned as sequin-clad Gary Poole led his disco dance troupe through a series of exotic routines. A male dancer hauled a woman, clad in a white jumpsuit, around the stage on a leash. After the dance was over, Anderson remarked to the 400 partygoers: "I'm guilty of a certain Midwestern naiveté. I've never seen anything quite like this before...
...historic center of Venice. The statesmen were as enchanted with the beguiling city as countless ordinary tourists before them. French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing went for a brisk ride up the Grand Canal in his motor launch, the Ile de France. Thatcher, still clad in a flowing evening gown, stole out of her hotel at 2 a.m. for a stroll beneath the stars. Mindful of threats from the terrorist Red Brigades to disrupt the successive summits, the Italian government marshaled an imposing display of security forces, including 8,000 reinforcements flown in from around the country...
...tractors clank down the 200-yd.-long assembly line like gigantic metal insects: 7,500 tractors a month, 90,000 a year, all bearing the trademark Belarus MTZ. Brigades of young laborers clad in work clothes or jeans swarm over each monster, slipping front axles and gear boxes into place, bolting on metal casings, attaching three or four giant wheels...
...House of Detention, signed the visitors' log-"Michael Schwartz" -and asked to see his client. While the lawyer waited in a glass-enclosed meeting room on the first floor, a guard went to escort the prisoner down from his maximum-security cell on the tenth floor. The prisoner, clad in a jumpsuit and in need of a shave, greeted Schwartz, and the two began conferring in private. During their talk, the guards changed shifts; shortly thereafter, the new guards watched a clean-shaven man in a gray tweed suit sign out-"Michael Schwartz"-and stroll out of the prison...
...portrayed by John Travolta in a 1976 TV film, was poignant: he sometimes threatened to walk out to virtually certain death, but mostly he tried to live normally: he liked Shakespeare, played the electric guitar and became a sci-fi buff; at a Star Trek convention, which he attended clad in an astronaut-type pressure suit, he was delighted to be mistaken for just another imaginatively attired Trekkie...