Word: garbed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...subjects have reason to desire anonymity, most are filmed jerkily at such an unnaturally close range - a teary eye here, trembling lips there - that viewers cannot assess the whole of their humanity or believability. In order to "let emotions resonate," says the filmmaker, she intercut interpretive dancers in Korean garb with scenes of barbed wire and chilling landscapes. Playing off kitsch paeans to North Korea's Dear Leader, Heikin adds, "the whole film sort of went operatic." Ominous music in the repetitive manner of Philip Glass underscores, and ultimately overplays, the film's stories. (Read "North Korea: The Coldest...
...streets trailed by charging bulls. Thousands more watch from safe nooks and balconies along the route, and spectators can also follow the events on national TV. Every morning from July 7 to 14, hordes of daredevils gather in a historic section of the city, many dressed in traditional garb and carrying rolled-up newspapers to swat the bulls if necessary. They sing a traditional homage to St. Fermin, asking him to guide them through the run. After two small rockets are fired, six bulls are released (along with a herd of steers), and the chase is on. The event generally...
...Ahmed has been working in the sari business for the past 13 years, during which the popularity of the famous garb has declined drastically in India's cities. Handloom-weaving is a small-scale business, so there are no comprehensive statistics to track it, but weavers say they've noticed a marked decline in the past decade. V.P. Sharma, 48, has been employed as a weaver in the handloom sari industry in Bihar since 1988. He blames the slowdown on women's changing tastes. It is particularly bad for handloom saris - the simple cotton saris that many Indian women used...
...whose 1909 book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom became required reading for the U.S. Army's newly launched unit of camoufleurs. Now that troops had to avoid bombs dropped from the sky, mines underfoot and bullets from pretty much everywhere else, the gloriously regal (not to mention flamboyant) garb worn in an earlier era of warfare began to seem a bit outdated, if not downright dangerous...
...challenges to conventional wisdom, the uprising may be creating new misperceptions. The spotlight on young, English-speaking protesters in Western garb gives a false impression that they are typical of Iranians, says Ken Katzman, a Middle East specialist at the Congressional Research Service. "These symbols of the Iranian reform movement are quite visible, quite vocal and quite well endowed, technologically. But they're not a majority. We keep missing that." Rutgers University professor Hooshang Amirahmadi fears that policymakers will focus more on the election than on the larger struggle of a new class of secular nationalists to break the bonds...