Word: garb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even the culture of protest has shifted from the folk music of the white middle class and the garb of the hippie left to the sounds and styles of the dispossessed. The emcee at this year's rally interspersed speakers with an angry rap. And while Peter, Paul and Mary performed before the march, the rally on the Capitol steps featured reggae and latin sounds...
...play begins with a lively monologue by Lou (Kerrington Osborne), a magician dressed in minstrel garb, in which he deftly parodies the degrading roles traditionally available for Black actors. While he speaks, the rest of the actors are also onstage wearing black masks with grotesque white mouths and eyes...
...Knowledge is key to liberation," said Isaac, dressed in a white djellaba, traditional Ethiopian garb. "The denial of Black peoples as humans is at the root of apartheid." The Ethopian-born professor stressed the need for intellectual equality of opportunity in the United States and South Africa through the study of African heritage...
...SECOND act opens with the cast in surfer garb dancing in the aisles to "Under The Boardwalk" a la Wuthering Heights. But why not? Happy days are here again, the Ice Age has thawed, the dinosaur is extinct, the tomato is edible and the human race celebrates at a convention of mammals in Atlantic City...
Hawkins has the misfortune of being up against Florida's beloved Governor Graham, a gung-ho campaigner who makes Ronald Reagan look like a melancholiac. He pumps palms and kisses babies with good-ole-boy abandon. He dresses in Cuban garb and struts down the streets of Little Havana handing out cigars and autographed photos. And, yes, he even sings his own campaign song: "You've got a friend in Bob Graham/ Let's send him to Washington and make Florida No. 1 . . . Bob Graham is a cracker/ Be a Graham cracker backer...