Word: feathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good. Mostly, though, admits the Dolls' David Johansen, "the whole glitter trip is just jive." A concert can also be simply an excuse for youngsters to come out for a reasonably harmless masquerade party. The kids go on parade to show off their white tuxedos and top hats, feather boas, and of course glitter, lavishly applied to face and body...
...assassination. "It wasn't the greatest week to have a comedy on," Stoppard recalls. Three years later came Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead-and fame. In view of the gentle, unassuming nature of Tom Stoppard's personality, fame is a word no weightier than a feather...
...added, "The league title is our main concern. A victory over a non-league team is no feather...
...this real freak-show type stuff into the dressing room and spends about a half hour in there, and I'm getting ready to go in because for all I know she's shooting up or something. And then she walks out looking like this crazy turkey mama--feather boas on her arms and she's wrapped an Indian shawl around her for a skirt, and she's braided beads into her hair and painted her face in green and white diamonds. And then she just struts around for a while, singing to herself like she's trying...
...helps to remember this story in reading A Crown of Feathers, because the story makes plainer the pain Singer expresses in the theme that runs through A Crown of Feather's stories: people's inability to know the truth, or even to know that there is any truth that would make what they suffer meaningful. Again and again in these stories--like almost all Singer's stories, they're stories of Polish Jews or their children in the United States, told in slightly humorous, simple sentences that probably lose something for not being read aloud--the fear that what happens...