Word: garbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...richest Jews in California walk out on a Bulworth rant. "Forty winks," and his guy will be just fine. "He's tied up with his advisers," he barks into two phones when Bulworth has disappeared yet again. When the Senator shows up for a TV interview in hip-hop garb fresh from the hood, Murphy chirps, "We're back on track." It isn't until he wonders if there's an opening with Dick Gephardt that we know he's losing hope...
...English section, I immediately explain my garb, which sparks a discussion of whether clothes should be important at all. Even with my explanation, the other students can't help sneaking peeks at me during the section. One boy, who came late and missed the explanation, can't keep his eyes off of me. Unlike the bold stares of yesterday, however, his stare comes in spurts, as if he's trying not to let me see him stare. Almost worse than invisible, I feel like a shrine, too holy for mortal eyes...
...technician running the machine had me strip down to the basics and slip on a blue hospital gown. No jewelry was allowed. My mind wandered to the thought of traditional Jewish burial garb, namely a simple white gown known as the kitel. All Jews leave earth as they arrived, that is, simple and unadorned...
...Jesse Jackson, shepherding Clinton across the African continent: "A half-million people were reduced to 40. So America saw us through a keyhole rather than a door." Unruly mobs in sweltering heat, photo ops with men who came to power at gunpoint, people dancing in brilliantly colored garb: those were often the familiar scenes seized on by the press...
...racial epithets. Walker's anti-stereotypes wouldn't make good logos on syrup bottles or tidy punch-lines to racist jokes. Rather, the very icons designed to suppress and stigmatize blacks return magnified and grotesque to haunt our collective conscience. Most shocking of all, the pickaninnies have appropriated the garb of paper silhouettes, the charming craft of their mistress' reaction...