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Word: dress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preparation for the pilgrimage, the male pilgrim must wash his body, shed his everyday dress and wear two pieces of unsewn sheets: one around the waist and the other over the shoulders. The female pilgrim is required to wear a long dress and cover her hair. The pilgrimage is considered the most fortunate moment of one's life, the time when one can travel to the Blessed City asking for God's forgiveness, hoping for complete forgiveness of one's sins and transgressions. Thus men's sheets and women's dresses are usually white, signifying a purer rebirth...

Author: By Sanaa Makhlouf, | Title: A Voyage Devotion | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

...member of the talented cast delivers Ntozake Shange's rich verse with expert precision, rendering intricate rhythmic shifts with mellifluous ease. All seven actresses perform exquisitely, but one deserves specific attention. Trazana Beverley, who plays the Lady in Red (all characters are identified simply by the color of their dress), steals the show with her earthy humor and lusty sensuality. Slightly overweight and less attractive than her companions onstage, Beverley plays the buffoon most of the night, but "a nite with beau willie brown," her lengthy monologue, which essentially concludes the show, reveals the range of her talents...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: A Special Spectrum | 11/19/1977 | See Source »

...times," says Regoczy, who is a second-year student at a Budapest medical university. "Then we frame out what we want to do and try to do it all out on the ice. Once we have a frame, we break it down into maybe five-second segments and really dress everything...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Regoczy and Sallay: A Special Blend of Talent | 11/17/1977 | See Source »

...outspent Howell 4 to 1. running up a campaign bill of some $1.2 million. Says Howell, a slight underdog in the latest polls: "We're up against money. It's their only strength, but it still talks." So does Elizabeth Taylor, who has been stumping for Dalton in a dress rehearsal for Sixth Husband John Warner's expected Senate run next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Two Tight Gubernatorial Races | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...seems that there is some difference between the white and the Indian that is more crucial than dress or teepees. It is something innate, locked somewhere inside the body, perhaps in the mind, perhaps elsewhere...

Author: By David Dalquist, | Title: The Forgotten Americans | 11/2/1977 | See Source »

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