Word: garb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most major clothing stores in the Harvard areasold uniforms, many promising tailoring as well.The Coop, Filene's Jordan Marsh, Scott andCompany, Smith-Gray Custom Tailor, J. Press andLeopold Morse Company were only a few of thosemarketing official Army and navy garb...
...hard surface, like a knife on a plate; repetitious rock drumming; voices reciting mantra-like inanities; and (in its own room full of TV monitors titled Clown Torture) the hoarse voice of Nauman, dressed as a clown, in a baggy suit of vertical stripes that slyly recalls the garb of concentration-camp prisoners, shrieking, "No, no, no, nonono!" while writhing and jerking on the floor...
...invented, but like many religious cults, it was based on traditions. The 20th century Emperors, in their role as commander of the Imperial Japanese Army, cut Napoleonic figures, riding white horses in splendid military uniforms, but they were also the high priests of State Shinto, donning traditional ceremonial garb and communing with the Sun Goddess in ancient shrines. If the forms were sometimes very old, the idea of the Emperor as the apex of a modern state religion...
Brown is willing to declare what many others still refuse to acknowledge: that the Murray-Herrnstein tract is simply the credo of white supremacy dressed up in raggedy pseudo-scientific garb. The book--and the reception it has received in so-called respectable circles--is a clear manifestation of the continuing power of racism and of the evil virus's continuing effort to overwhelm white America's psychic struggle to live up to its proclaimed allegiance to humanism and opportunity for all. Lee A. Daniels Fellow, W.E.B. DubBois Institute for Afro-American Research Preceptor, Expository Writing Program
...what garb defines this sassy salmagundi of decades, this wham, glam, thank you ma'am era? Get one of those NEW kneelength skirts, if you're too proud to snitch one out of your mother's closet. Pull on the tights of a Varga girl--How's that for fishnet worth? A tuxedo jacket--can you say Marlene Dietrich? (I can't.) Skinny belts are in. If not you, why not your belt...