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...want my leg-of-mutton sleeves, and in addition to those I want my cutie chamois booties with the leopard-skin bows. I want by pink-brocaded bodice with the fluffy fuzzy ruffs And my gorgeous bright blue bloomers with the monkey-feather cuffs...
...Search further and you'll find ceremonial brasses from Benin, Hawaiian feather cloaks and-most notoriously-a group of shrunken heads from the Americas (alongside trepanned skulls, and teeth that had been ritually filed to sharp points). There are tattooing and body-piercing displays, while the more squeamish can find diversion in mountains of magic charms, jewelry and ethnic sculpture. Those seeking a break from the saccharine prettiness of Oxford's colleges-or the steep prices of its centuries-old pubs-will find it here. Especially on a rainy day, and with a healthy sense of wonder...
...Search further and you'll find ceremonial brasses from Benin, Hawaiian feather cloaks and-most notoriously-a group of shrunken heads from the Americas (alongside trepanned skulls, and teeth that had been ritually filed to sharp points). There are tattooing and body-piercing displays, while the more squeamish can find diversion in mountains of magic charms, jewelry and ethnic sculpture...
...walks into a bar, starts talking to a tense woman in a hat with an elaborate feather; invites her to a Broadway show because he?s been stood up by his wife and has an extra ticket; agrees to her condition of anonymity; leaves her at the bar after the show; arrives home to find his wife dead and himself the main suspect. Who?s his alibi? Dunno. Where does she live? Couldn?t say. Did anyone see them at the time of the murder? Sure, lots of people - but none of them seems to remember the phantom lady. Innocence...
...contribution to the community, as their part in the inter-town rivalry. “You just don’t get it,” my brother is wont to say of high school. “You never got it.” And looking at the feather boa on his pillow, I knew he was right...