Word: feathering
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...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...
...feather in our cap, something we've needed a long time,'" City Councilor Saundra Graham agreed...
...earnings of the whole store. The basic design has not changed in 21 years. "I keep thinking that one day it will look old-fashioned and passe," says Stutz, "but it doesn't." Customers there receive close but not suffocating attention from modish salespeople as they buy pheasant feather necklaces for $270 or silvery snakeskin-covered appointment books for $150. Actress Cicely Tyson, a regular customer, reportedly buys all her furs from Bendel's second-floor salon; and two years ago, former Beatle John Lennon grabbed up $10,000 worth of Christmas goodies for friends at the store...
...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...