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...regularly, as jugglers, actors, and mimes grace—or shame—the stage. Even nudity makes appearances; while some performers tamely sing their covers or recite their original poetry, others are long on words and short on clothing. These wild performers have been known to shed their garb for their art, which calls for nudity... just because.Whatever the routine, no one is merely a member of the audience. Squawk hearkens back to a time when performance was more interactive. A vacuum of infectious energy, the coffeehouse sucks in its viewers, who are persuaded by their friends to take...
...open expression of sexuality. The region below the waist is darkened, and the only discernible forms are a golden phallus incorporated into a threatening horned visage drawn in tribal paint. In another photograph entitled “Black Friar,” Fani-Kayode is dressed in black religious garb and set against a dimly lit background. His face is lit from below, as if illuminated by ceremonial candlelight. Fani-Kayode looks uncomfortable in his friar’s robes. The lighting is just strong enough to capture his eyes, which avert downwards and away from the penetrating gaze...
Robert Frost wrote, "The land was ours before we were the land's"; Wyeth paints Young America (1950) showing a boy in the garb of a footloose youth riding an extravagant bicycle in all the vastness of America. As he often does, Wyeth actually painted the figures over a completed landscape, afterthoughts in a void...
...whom it knows Israel will go to great lengths not to kill—in order to carry out its missions. In 2006, armed Hamas terrorists barricaded themselves inside a mosque. Palestinian women gathered outside, and the terrorists managed to dress themselves in the women’s garb and escape, knowing that Israel would not fire at a group of people without knowing who among the group was the real target...
...rarely witnessed by foreign eyes: a meeting of the great sheiks of Iraq's Anbar province, at the heavily guarded compound of the powerful chieftains of the al-Hais family, on the outskirts of the provincial capital. Some 300 tribal elders have gathered here, most of them in traditional garb, and much of the morning has been taken up with the elaborate Arab rituals of salutation. Every newcomer must greet every person already present with handshakes, hugs and kisses - on the cheek to show friendship, on the shoulder for respect. Then there are the endless cups of tea and coffee...