Word: garbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...star of David strewn all over his garb, to see the fatness epitomizing the love of food in Jewish culture, to see the peyes (the curls of hair)--basically this Jewish "person" is a caricature. It reminds me all too well of the caricatures the Nazis portrayed in their propaganda. With all their intelligence, why don't these Harvard students open a book and their eyes, and look at the propaganda--the pictures that made fun of the way Jews "looked"--and the hatred it helped perpetrate...
...father wore African garb, attended mosque regularly and practiced polygamy, which was valued in Wolof society. He had three wives and 14 children. Diop says it was like having three mothers and he did not consider his full siblings any different from his half siblings...
...mechanical, dogmatic methods that were employed. I never really held a religious belief." Later on, he said, "I had other values: a political belief which I forged on my own, as a result of my experience, analysis and sentiments." Nevertheless, the rebel wore a small cross on his guerrilla garb in the early days of the revolution. In the book, he astonished Cubans with the extent of his religious knowledge and the flattering comparisons he drew between Christianity and Marxism. "Karl Marx," he said, "would have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount." Christians, he added, had been excluded from...
...troubles. Just before Christmas, it was the massacre of 45 men, women and children who are said to have been sympathizers of the state's Zapatista guerrillas. The perpetrators: gunmen allegedly loyal to the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.). Last week groups of Tzotzil Maya Indians dressed in colorful garb and carrying religious images were nervously returning to the village of Acteal, where the slaughter took place. "We came back because this is where we're from," said survivor Diego Perez, 32, blinking back tears as he recalled how his father, brother and aunt were killed in cold blood...
...costumes are for the most part unremarkable, the dull colors relieved only by the striking black, red, and purple garb of the Capulets. The scenery, however, by artist Alain Vaes, is breathtaking. The fair city of Verona comes alive in all its luxurious beauty, filled with graceful archways and lovely fountains. The interior of the Capulet home is dominated, with striking appropriateness, by a large mural of the tumultuous history of the family. Plenty of luminous stars create a suitably romantic atmosphere for the balcony scene, forming a stark contrast to the gloomy, eerily bare family crypt where the drama...