Word: feathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happily gleans, from an evening of House light opera, its blaze of color reflecting the elixir's goodnatured powers of enchantment. The beholder's eye rejoices in a visual revue with snatches of symphonic pretension, a waltz of cowboy hats and ruffled decolletage and flame-red dime-store feather boas, all swirling away gaily beneath the Lowell House chandcliers...
Next there is a fight for the New England championship, pitting a feather weight of great appeal from Dedham with the unlikely name of Freddy Roach against the current champion, Joe Phillips. Phillips looks greasy. Roach is pretty sly and pretty soon he takes command. But I am filled with loathing. I go for another...
...Hunt was trying his best to bankrupt the Republic; the financial fooling around was especially damaging to his campaign since it turned out Hunt served on Symm's finance committee. And Church's labor support has yet to be eroded by the right-to-work challenger. But the biggest feather in Church's cap may be his seniority--power he has exploited to bring Idahoans enough favors that they will likely return him to Washington, especially since Reagan/Church bumper stickers have cropped up across the state in the last two weeks...
...head woven from vine roots with its mouth outlined in dogs' teeth and its scalp matted with human hair, could coexist with a high order of technical skill. What survived the auto-da-fe in greater quantity was decorative art of lesser iconographic content: not gods, but feather robes, bone or whale-tooth ornaments, and the beautifully carved wooden containers, irregular in their polished silkiness, from which the Hawaiians ate their poi, a sort of tropical office paste made of taro roots...
...best part of the exhibition is un questionably its feather work. The Bish op Museum has an unrivaled collection of the cloaks and capes worn by Hawaiians of high rank, and few garments in the history of costume display so dense a concentration of labor and material...