Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whatever the behavior of the Harvard spectators, one thing was certain: the Crimson victory was heavenly. After the game, the Harvard band draped a banner over the glass that proclaimed the Crimson ECAC Champion. The cloth banner fell to the ice once and Harvard forward Steve Armstrong triumphantly lifted it back over with his stick...
...years ago, makes almost all of the masks and costumes used in the performance. She describes her favorite apparitions this way: "The Jester is a bedspread, some socks and curtains, beads and bells. Buttonface is pajamas, a favorite shirt, lots of buttons, a vegetable steamer, socks and an old cloth flag I used to fly in Arroyo Hondo. The apparitions are gentle reminders to the Amtrak passengers that dreams are important aspects of our lives...
...afternoon in the Loita Hills, there were three Masai warriors, called ilmurran, sitting in the shade beside a dung-walled hut. Their hair was long and greased with fat. They were barefoot and wore only the shuka, a bright- patterned piece of cloth, like a tablecloth, draped as a short toga around waist and shoulders. Their spears leaned against the wall of the hut, with their rungu -- knob-ended clubs that the Masai can throw with a fierce accuracy. One of the warriors, named David, spoke halting English. He was about 20 years old, although the Masai pay little attention...
...musicals must be "about" something beyond melody and romance. Rags tried to survey the immigrant experience, Honky Tonk Nights blended music hall with racial conflict, Raggedy Ann was a dying girl's Freudian nightmare, and Into the Light asked whether the Shroud of Turin is Jesus Christ's burial cloth. All suffocated under the weight of their ambition...
...participated, and from noon until dusk, an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 people traversed the blocked-off sections of JFK and Brattle streets. Vendors competed for the attention of the crowd by displaying such exotic wares as hand painted shirts, Indian mirrored bags, Alpaca wool sweaters, Kenya bags, cloth from Thailand, Nepal, and China, and hand-sewn bags from Colombia...