Word: lording
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...excellent choice for the budget shopper, Dorothy’s selection of costumes is eclectic and amusing. Besides boasting a wide stock of “sexy costumes” (nurse, Little Bo Beep, Dorothy) and many movie outfits (Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings), Dorothy’s also offers a large array of accessories. Fangs, wigs, boas and hats are but a small sampling of the offerings that make Dorothy’s an essential stop for costume refinement. And that chinchilla tucked into a corner of your room need not miss out—Dorothy?...
...those two were not unsettling enough, later there is the figure of the fertility god Xipe Totec, circa 1500. Known to the Aztecs as "our flayed lord," he wears a pebbly garment that represents flayed human skin with pustules of fat clinging to it. The idea behind this image was actually positive. Priests who personified Xipe Totec in fertility rituals wore the skins of sacrificial victims for several days. Then, as the skins dried and came apart, the priests' healthy bodies emerged, symbolizing the fundamental Aztec notion of life growing out of death. But still...
...music of war—- “Weapons of Musical Destruction.” The group features Lassus’s “Tragico tecti syrmate,” Billings’s “Chester,” Haydn’s “Lord Nelson Mass,” Vaughan Williams’s “Dona Nobis Pacem,” and works by Handel, John Adams, Kurt Weill, and Pete Seeger. Tickets $25-$35. First Congregational Church, 11 Garden St., Cambridge...
...unlike the pampered princesses sitting on their $182.8 million payroll, not only have the heart, but they’re tough and ready to fight. While George Steinbrenner forbids his team from having any facial hair—though it’s doubtful the Little Lord Fauntleroys could grow any if they tried—the Red Sox are busy maintaining a variety of beards and eccentric hairstyles, proving not only that they have personality but that they are real men as they showcase their own take on rugged individualism...
...time to enroll in classes (normally 4 per semester, two times 5, one time 3 (abnormally extended malady)). I feel my unusual ability to balance homework with classes, friendship with acquaintanceship, and still entertain a sympathetic, understanding, concerned, kind, compassionate, intellectually thrusting and competitive nature helps me to lord it over my colleagues like a King...