Word: dress
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Devotees' dress, shaved heads and tilaka, the white clay lines on their foreheads, represent their spiritual devotion to Krishna. A shaved head is a sign of detachment from material pleasure, and the tilaka signifies that the body is the temple of God. A devotee's robes serve to remind others of the person's availability for spiritual guidance, though one may participate in the Krishna movement and wear conventional dress...
...move that any supervisor contemplates with foreboding. The supervisor is compelled to give the offending employee 90 days' notice before he issues the bad grade. During this time, the employee is able to build up a substantial defense. He can then make a series of appeals with full-dress hearings that can drag on for months. Understandably, managers prefer to give everybody a passing grade in order to avoid the hassle...
There is something in politics called "class." It has little to do with pedigree, money, dress or good looks. Instead, it is the essence of the man. Thus the colleagues of big, blustering House Speaker Tip O'Neill, from the back streets of Cambridge, can hail him as "a classy guy." And thus did John F. Kennedy so devastatingly sum up his 1960 victory over Richard Nixon: "He's got no class." Franklin Roosevelt had class. Warren Harding did not. One of the maladies of the Carter Administration these days seems to be lack of class. Class...
...stylist decrees a red chiffon evening dress, and Tiegs, with as much modesty as she can manage in a room full of people, slips it on. Wearing ballet slippers and carrying a pair of elegant red sandals, she pads across to where she will be photographed against a white paper drop. She grins at an onlooker. She can look a 6-ft. 2-in. man in the eye. The red flower in her hair looks like a pennant at the masthead of a racing sloop. Ellen Merlo has said that the one overriding reason for Tiegs' appeal is that...
What Tiegs does now is a fast, intricate dance. She turns quickly, swirling the skirt of her red dress. She is very good. At the height of the swirl, and an instant before Seltzer's strobe lights flash, she smiles in a way that seems marvelously natural, although the smile's wattage is far greater than anything likely to be encountered in the real world. For perhaps 20 minutes, the pattern of turn, swirl, smile is repeated without letup, but with subtle variations. In these 20 minutes, Seltzer fires off four or five rolls of 36-exposure Kodachrome, perhaps...