Word: ostrichized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ceremony was as flavorful and varied as Kenya itself. Native chieftains in python-skin and ostrich-feather robes, Indian women hi flowing, pastel-shaded saris, black and white Kenyans in khaki safari outfits or pinstripe suits crowded around the dais in Nairobi's Uhuru (freedom in Swahili) Park. Hundreds of tribal dancers in monkey-skin skirts and black feather headdresses swayed rhythmically, rattling anklets made of Coca-Cola bottletops and ululating cries of praise. Naval battalions boomed out a 21-gun salute, and there was an ear-cracking, low-flying aeronautics display by fighters of the Kenya air force...
Sally Rand, septuagenarian fan dancer, when asked after a recent performance whether she really wears nothing beneath her ostrich plumes: "It doesn't much matter. The Rand is quicker than...
...Styrofoam swans, in full ostrich-feather plumage, floated serenely in the swimming pool, flanked by bouquets of roses and magnolia blossoms, at Billy Carter's place north of Plains. To the strains of the wedding march, Billy and his daughter Jana strode over a bridge built across the pool for the occasion. The bride wore white. Billy outdid the swans in his ruffled shirt and his pale, cream-colored tuxedo with brown piping and a broad brown stripe down each trouser leg. His hair is rapidly turning gray now, and he wept a little as he gave...
...objects. Since in their view, painters and sculptors were artisans like any other, bronze busts of earlier Electors, paintings of Adam and Eve, and a portrait of Martin Luther get no greater pride of place than the products of other craftsmen-a drinking vessel in the shape of an ostrich, an astronomical clock, a carpenter's jack plane or an ornate traveling tool...
Your article "Can the U.S. Defend Itself?" [April 3] may pull a few ostrich heads out of the sand...