Word: claddings
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...walks briskly down these dusty streets checking on his men distributed across 30 checkpoints, he is joined by Colonel Abdel-Rida Shwaya of the Iraqi police's 7th Brigade. The young sheikh cuts a striking figure, clad in a crisp, white dishdasha and matching headdress. His weather-beaten face, his thick, black mustache and the tan bandolier draped across his chest give him the look of an Arabic Pancho Villa. Neither man knows if any of Dora's SOIs will be part of the 20% absorbed by the security forces. There are 300 more Sunni patrolmen than there are Iraqi...
Given the spate of costume dramas that have hit the big screen recently, you could be forgiven for failing to distinguish one silk-clad heroine from another. And “The Duchess”—based on the biography of the same name by Amanda Foreman—does little to make the dazzling Georgiana of Devonshire stand out from the crowd. Like “Marie Antoinette” and “The Other Boleyn Girl,” “The Duchess” is a period film about a beautiful, young, aristocratic...
...with sickening force. She and Frederick were kind to each other now, almost gentle. They spoke little. What could they possibly have to say?She was contemplating a return to the bougainvillea--it couldn’t hurt--when she saw Frederick ambling towards her. His thin body was clad in black, and he had allowed his hair to grow long and shaggy.The look did not suit him, Felicity thought dispassionately.“Good afternoon, dear,” Frederick began hesitantly. “I trust you are recovered?”Felicity did not deign to reply...
...bikini-clad beach volleyball dancers set quite a high bar, but we're with you, Claude, and so are many of the players. "I think women should wear a dress like tennis players, I think our dress is so boring, not sexy," said Wang. And if that doesn't work, the ITTF might want to think about opening up that glue tent to the spectators...
This year the Chinese women have staked their claim to a sport that has long been the stomping ground of the U.S., Brazil and Australia. With its cheap beer, goading deejay, bikini-clad cheerleaders and 80s pop hits cranked between points, the Chaoyang Park stadium seems more Manhattan Beach than Middle Kingdom...