Word: paraphernalia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association carried candles and other paraphernalia as they circled the Yard and honored the god of time, Chronos, with speeches and chants on the steps of Widener Library...
Dimitri Tragos, manager of J. August, a Harvard paraphernalia store which has been at the same location in the Square since 1891, says that his store will be carrying commemorative t-shirts...
That escapist streak is evident in rave clothing, which tends toward loud primary colors, patterned wool caps and untucked shirts emblazoned with peace signs, happy faces and corporate logos. A key part of the look is "trip toys," or out-of-kilter trinkets and prankish paraphernalia like op-art jewelry, prism eyeglasses and fluorescent body paint. "A trip toy is something that will catch people's attention and make them smile," says Niles Peacock, who attends raves with a ball-point pen that transforms into a tiny soap-bubble blower. "The whole purpose is amusement...
...artist, but the underlying theme seems to be a simplification of natural forms to their bare essence. The genre attempts to narrow the dichotomy between form and content. The artists' subjects are brought to the surface by means of abstraction: the figures or objects are stripped of the paraphernalia that composes form and are, instead, reduced to only content...
...stops at this or That great Virginian's house were peripheral. More essential to my visit were the stops at the gift shops and restaurants where I could restock and expand my collection of colonial paraphernalia...