Word: lavalava
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...When I was a freshman, my first gig ever on saxophone was with as band called LavaLava on a stage outside Mather. Then sophomore year, a couple friends and I were standing on the corner in front of Tommy's at about three in the morning. We decided if we were going to stand on the street corner at three in the morning, we better become a blues band. We formed this band called the Barbarian Blues Band. Soon we began writing original material-which was coming out more as funky New-Wave type stuff-and that band became...
...strangeness is both spiced and complicated further by stubborn traces of the familiar. On Flag Day, a legal secretary suddenly re-emerges as a taupou, or ceremonial virgin. A U.S. Army man appears amid a group of spear- shaking warriors in lavalava skirts, fierce tattoos on many thighs. A former Hollywood bit actor resumes his role as the "talking chief" of Leone, leading his villagers through hymn-inflected island chants and primal dances. And then, just before Governor Peter Coleman, Congressman Eni Faleomavaega and various other dignitaries get ready to join in the final swaying dance, a village chorus sits...
Wray's argument was enough for Samoa's Chief Judge Arthur Morrow, 71, former dean of Iowa's Drake University Law School. Amazing the lavalava-clad spectators, Morrow declared the Samoan civil rights law null and void. Moreover, at Wray's request, Judge Morrow approved the arrest of Governor Lee's prosecutor for arresting Brown without a warrant (possible penalty: a $500 fine, a year in jail or both). Said one sober Samoan as he left the courtroom: "We now know that the American Constitution means something in American Samoa...
...uniforms of the two organizations are similar in style except for the headgear; the Fitas wear a stiff red cloth band about three inches wide on the head, leaving the hair on top exposed. Also, the Fitas wear a white "lavalava" for general duty, and one of dark blue color for dress. They wear a red sash around the waist with both the white and blue lavalavas...
Incidentally, you might also have told your readers that "fitafita" is the Samoan word for soldier, and "lavalava," besides being the native word for the skirt, means clothing in Samoan...
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