Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That offers little comfort to Israeli citizens. Residents were dismayed to learn that their air-raid shelters would prove useless, since heavier-than-air poison gas seeps into underground shelters and lingers there. Many were incredulous when an expert explained that a cloth soaked in water and baking soda could serve as a makeshift breathing mask...
...throngs of the faithful, clad in traditional terry-cloth robes, crossed a pedestrian bridge in Mina, a railing gave way under the pressure. Seven worshipers plunged 8 meters, smashing into even greater waves of people at the mouth of a 550-meter-long tunnel dug through a mountain to ease the pietists' journey. The rain of bodies brought foot traffic to a halt, but at the tunnel's opposite end other hajjis, unaware of the human blockade, continued to shove forward. Soon the passageway was jammed with some 50,000 people, many times more than its capacity. Next, according...
...Orientalism had become a large fashion among salon painters and their clients. French artists brought their minutely realist style and their mildly prurient interests to Fez and Marrakech, and went back to Paris with both intact. To be influenced as a painter by Islamic art -- architecture, rugs, tiles, cloth, miniatures -- was inconceivable, like "going native." The imperious gaze went only one way; its view of Morocco was colonialism in paint...
...years has it been deemed necessary to append any "yes, but" footnote. To do so now would do more to desecrate the flag than any misguided arsonist ever could. For without those liberties for which it stands, the Stars and Stripes would become little more than colors on a cloth...
...City, the show marks the U.S. debut of Moscow's venerable Vakhtangov Theater and of Ulyanov, its artistic director as well as its star. Although the bulky, brooding Ulyanov in no way resembles the vulpine Lenin, he and his troupe seem wholly at ease. Amid the symbolic flutters of cloth, abrupt bursts of music, caricatures of the old bourgeoisie and odd lighting shifts, they keep a tight focus on the most troubling aspect of politics anywhere, the need to compromise principle...