Word: ostrichism
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Kenya's witch doctors are an impressive lot. Clad in ostrich plumes, tarbooshes, beaded caps, seashell belts and fur aprons, they emit noises even stranger than their appearance as they stalk along with pebble-filled antelope horns, porcupine quills and fly whisks. Their satchels of leopard or monkey skin bulge with the tools of their trade: magical elixirs (miti-shambd), dead and living animals, hammers, chisels and dung. They represent the only form of medical attention paid to nearly 80% of Kenya's 8,000,000 Africans and Asians, despite a government program that has spent...
...whose husband is a Revlon vice president, wore her gold, green and blue sequins on her eyelids; Maxine Leeb (who got married there last June) turned up in a bodice of bird breasts; Mrs. Huntington Hartford, a shy ex-model, all but hid her light under a bushel of ostrich feathers; and Senator (for a few days more) Kenneth Keating wore his well-known white-on-white hair...
...Lady opens in October, it will hammer into the public consciousness a new appreciation of an old art style that was known in its day as art nouveau-new art. In planning the film's sets and 1,000 period costumes, complete with white lace, pink muslin, and ostrich feathers sprouting from extravagant hats, British Designer Cecil Beaton drew on childhood memories of Edwardian England at the turn of the century. He thereby put the movie right in the current stylistic swim. For a decade the revival of art nouveau has been building in nostalgic museum shows in London...
...session, he seriously suggested that his fellow bishops toss their jeweled episcopal rings, mitres and other symbols of office away. Just before returning to Brazil, Câmara candidly told Pope Paul that he should get rid of the sedia gestatoria (portable papal throne) and the flabella, the white ostrich feather fans carried beside it. Camara identifies with new-wave Catholic leaders, says: "The church must join the battle for development and social justice so that later people will not say the church deserted them in their hour of need because it was compromised by big business. If that happens...
...According to Alfons Wotschitzky, director of the Archaeological Institute of the University of Innsbruck, "The egglike objects just above [Artemis'] waist, formerly considered as multiple female breasts, are now correctly interpreted as ostrich eggs decorating her garment. Ostrich eggs, as a symbol of fertility, may still be found today in nearly every Greek village church...