Word: headdressed
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Just before the rally began, the finance company seized one contestant's Fiat. The jack-booted driver of an Australian Ford showed up with his rear seat cramped by an ice-cream-packed icebox. The crew of a Queensland Volkswagen whooped it up in American Indian headdress. But most of the competitors in the 10,563-mile, round-Australia Mobilgas Rally who started west from Melbourne last month spent their last spare minutes sensibly checking safety equipment. They would have to drive a distance more than one-third the circumference of the earth, bounce over the worst...
...airport. Erupting from its interior came six fierce-looking bodyguards, their gold daggers glinting beside shiny machine pistols thrust in their black bandoleers. Twenty-one guns boomed ceremonially as a tall, majestically robed Arab King stepped down from the plane, silver-rimmed spectacles gleaming beneath his flowing, gold-banded headdress. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, an Arab in a business suit, stepped forward, and kissed him on both cheeks...
...Most spectacular newcomer was Trinidad's rangy (6 ft. 6 in.) Dancer Geoffrey Holder, who appeared in the big ballet that sprawls in the middle of the opera. Holder made a startling appearance, his long brown body bare except for a white bikini and a brilliant, feather-patterned headdress. In a primitive tribal dance that recalled his appearance last year in Broadway's House of Flowers, Holder leaped and writhed with a fierce catlike virility that more than matched Verdi's triumphal music...
Chaac was the most important god in the everyday life of the corn-growing Mayans. Betokening his rain-producing powers, he is shown with two pots for water, one adorned with corn symbol. Beneath his ojo de serpiente (eye of the snake) headdress, he presents a double aspect: one side still wears the now-muted green of lush cornfields; the other is the weathered brown of drought...
Abdullah wears European suits and Somali headdress, and is a man in transition like his country. "I was born in the wilds," said he. "My parents were nomads and my birth was never registered. I think I am 38 but of course I am not certain...