Word: cladding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frustrations not withstanding, the Kuumbas are thrilling to watch as well as hear when they are onstage. In last week's performance at Burden Hall at the Business school the singers captivated a crowd of over 300 people. Clad in a flowing white choral robe and white slacks, and topped by his shiny black Afro, Ingraham and the dashiki and and Afro-garbed choir exuded a contagious joy and enthusiasm in their singing. The audience forgot its own troubles for three hours and stood up and clapped and chanted and shouted amen and hallelujah with the Kuumbas. Despite the hard...
...showgirl-songstress wife Dotty; and her psychiatrist lover, Sir Archibald Jumper, who is the vice chancellor and pragmatic villain of the college where George teaches. More bizarre companions include George's secretary, who likes to striptease while swinging by her teeth from a chandelier; a troupe of yellow-clad acrobats ("a mixture of the more philosophical members of the university gymnastics team and the more gymnastic members of the philosophy school"); and a corpse in a plastic bag named McFee...
While visiting San Francisco last week, Nelson T. Shields IV, 23, of Greenville, Del., enjoyed a game of lacrosse with friends, then gave a fellow player a hand in moving a rug. Still clad in his playing shorts, sweatshirt and tennis shoes, he leaned over the trunk of a car to make room for the rug, when three fatal pistol shots whizzed seemingly out of nowhere and hit him in the back. Shields' death was the twelfth in the series of bizarre, random "Zebra" attacks -apparently not linked with the S.L.A.-that have plagued the city for 21 terrifying...
...think that he was really the reclusive Pynchon himself. Others believed that his performance was a clever parody of Pynchon's tortuous style. The ceremonies were not all fun and games. Poetry co-winners were Allen Ginsberg and Adrienne Rich. Ginsberg's standin, Poet Peter Orlovsky, clad in a T shirt covered with grim statistics from the Viet Nam War, quoted Ginsberg: "There is no longer any hope for the salvation of America." Rich somberly accepted her award on behalf of "all the women whose voices have gone and still go unheard in a patriarchal world." Obviously eager...
...course ridiculous, but that does not much matter in a book whose characters say things like "We don't have a chance to fulfill such a dream," and young Adam compares Sharon with something out of Christopher Marlowe while noting (always the writer) that the girl is clad in a "body-hugging knit blouse" and "abbreviated leather skirt...