Word: feathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shoppers at The Wandering Eye (1297 Cambridge St.). In the back of the store, behind the usual selection of old clothing and jewelry. The Wandering Eye has a costume rental department. For $15 to $25 a day, you can rent out a beaded dress, a ball gown, or a feather boa. And they aren't in demand just at Halloween, says owner Emily McAdoo: "I'm surprised at the evidence of really interesting parties that go on here all year round." She has outfitted groups going to a medieval wedding party and a "Vicars and Tarts" party, as well...
...thwarting of Helms's attack on the courts is hardly the only feather in Shattuck's hat In 1974, four years out of Yale Law School and working as a litigator for the ACLU. Shattuck represented Morton H. Halperin in his suit against the government at the height of the Watergate scandal. Halperin, an assistant to Henry A. Kissinger '50 when the latter was National Security advisor, was a victim of wiretapping illegally authorized by then-President Richard M. Nixon and Kissinger in the early days of Nixon's presidency. During the case, Shattuck obtained depositions from Nixon, Kissinger...
...night for suites decorated with antique furniture, soft salmon colors and fireplaces. The hotel keeps a record of its customers' preferences. Said a concierge: "We can look at his card and know he was born on June 24, drinks Scotch and water, and wants a feather pillow instead of a foam...
...being wined and dined at an elaborate Texas barbecue, Yeager rides to Edwards Air Force Base and steps into a new jet fighter. The Soviets, he says, have set a new speed record, and he is determined to break it. As the astronauts comfortably watch a Sally Road feather dance from their banquet hall seats. Yeager goes too for too fast and loses control. But in an act more heroic than any earth orbit he survives a crash landing and wails away from the smoldering metal heap smiting...
...Toward us, like a great feather . . . is the Hindenburg. The members of the crew are looking down on the field ahead of them getting their glimpses of the mooring mast...