Word: garb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...international Jesuit leadership to Rome for further instructions, the grumbles and concern mounted. Some of the North and South Americans arrived for the meeting in T shirts and blue jeans, a minor act of sartorial insouciance, given John Paul's insistence on traditional dress (they wore clerical garb when they met the Pontiff). Many of the leaders were in a fighting mood, armed with massive documentation on the good works they were accomplishing...
...play-within-a-play begins, Spelvin enters dressed in black Renaissance garb, but the setting is a terrace of a posh hotel overlooking the harbor at Nice, and the first lines addressed to him are from Noel Coward's Private Lives. The plots thicken and boil. Beckett's Endgame and Happy Days are intermingled as well. With zany aplomb, Durang combines absurdist juxtapositions of lines and characters in Spelvin's massive identity crisis...
...group of refugees from a fancy Dungeons & Dragons tournament? Nope, just James Mason, Olivia Hussey, Anthony Andrews and Lysette Anthony in period garb for the CBS-TV movie Ivanhoe, due to air in February. The Sir Walter Scott novel of religious prejudice inspired the 1952 MGM classic with Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor. Olivia must now contend with the memory of Liz's smoldering Rebecca, but she doesn't want to hear about Ol' Lavender Eyes. Huffs Hussey: "I don't follow in anyone's footsteps...
...squad. LAMARR FLATT--who saw lots of action his freshman year in the 1979-80 season, but who spent last year away from the hardcourt--is back. Senior DAVE KOHN opted not to try out this season, but he was up on the fourth floor anyway, in the unfamiliar garb of a member of the coaching staff. Kohn will help newly hired assistant coach JOE ROGERS with the junior varsity squad. Rogers--who graduated from Boston College last May--joined the 60 Boylston crowd last week, signing on as director of sports promotions in addition to the hoop...
...country's nonwhite minorities (Indians, Chinese, mixed race) would be deferred until 1983 at the earliest. Botha also lashed out at liberal white South Africans who criticize his government's apartheid policies, implicitly branding them as agitators. Said he: "There are Satans walking about in white garb." The only racial palliatives Botha's party offered were marginal and vague...