Word: garb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...checkpoint at the village of Lotsum, along the tense cease-fire line between India and Pakistan in the Himalayas. The travelers looked like ordinary Kashmiri peasants, and the guards let them pass. But one of them was not what he seemed. French Anthropologist Michel Peissel had disguised himself in garb like that of his two local guides, staining his face with walnut dye in order to enter a region long forbidden to foreigners: the Dansar Plain of "Little Tibet," the no man's land of a legendary tribe known as the Minaro...
...sister's cells are taking hold. Says Shearer: "We expect to know in a month." Now that he has been exposed to the outside world, David will never return to the bubble. For the present, he remains quarantined, but his family may visit his room wearing surgical garb. For the former bubble boy, even that amount of human contact must seem a luxury...
...only Sadat but all films produced or distributed by Columbia Pictures. Egyptian objections to the four-hour movie are not so much that Anwar Sadat is played by a black actor, as some reports have suggested, but that accents are often Pakistani rather than Egyptian; some of the garb worn is found in Morocco, not Egypt; Nasser is shown kissing Sadat's wife, an abominated Westernism. Moreover, to the Egyptians the film seems to tilt inaccurately toward Menachem Begin in awarding credit for the Egyptian-Israeli accords. Nonsense, counters Sadat Producer Daniel Blatt. The real reason...
...Army Surplus in Raleigh, N.C. "Usually the hunters buy it, but this is the first time we've had bare walls because of the younger kids." Sales increased tenfold over the previous year during the holiday season at Dug-Out, a Chicago store specializing in military garb. Burk Manufacturing Co. of Shreveport, La., one of the nation's largest commercial manufacturers of military-style clothing, has increased its production of camouflage wear by 70% since last August, and is starting to ship it to boutiques and department stores as well as the traditional military-surplus shops...
Nowhere has the "camo" craze been more noticeable than in Washington, where Redskins mania has been epitomized Running Back John Riggins' off-field military garb. Sales of military gear have "broken all records," according to Laura Loeb, manager of Washington's U.S. Military store. A city bus was even decorated in camouflage as a promotional stunt for the National Guard. Meanwhile in Hollywood, stars like Priscilla Barnes of Three's Company are donning camouflage and more exotic military wear. "I've sold flight coveralls to Raquel Welch," reports Jeff Stein, owner of the Camp Beverly Hills...