Word: robed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visited his old workshop in the Cavendish Laboratory, and dined with the dons at his old college, Trinity. Realizing that he had no academic gown, the required dress for evening meals in college, he asked a college servant to fetch one for him. The man brought back the very robe that Kapitsa had left behind 32 years...
...with a smile: "I use this, but it doesn't give a very close shave." Then Tri Quang fixed McCulloch with a thoughtful stare and concluded the preliminaries with an observation that gave the correspondent cause to meditate: "Mr. McCulloch, you ought to wear a monk's robe. It would suit...
...young monk, possessing nothing but his begging bowl, his robe and a pair of rubber sandals, went with Tri Do to Hanoi. There he caught sight of Ho Chi Minh and was swept by the fever for freedom from the French. In the years of war against Paris, the French suspected, probably rightly, that the lithe bonze with the burning eyes was helping Ho's Viet Minh front. They once jailed him for ten days on suspicion that he was a Communist, but they could not prove it?nor has anyone since, despite the taint of suspicion that still lingers...
Gauguinesque to Egyptian. Last month Paris Match published photographs showing the way eleven photographers saw her. From a pose out on the landing gear of an airborne helicopter to an underwater dive with her diaphanous robe streaming behind her, Donyale never seemed the same. The slight hardening of a soft smile and a lift of the chin transformed her from Gauguinesque to Egyptian. Far more than the sum of her long (5 ft. 10 in.), model-spindly parts (31-21½-36), she is a creature of contrasts-one minute so phisticated, the next faunlike, now exotic and faraway...
...Japanese face. As a light touch, the great priest's shoes appear below his chair, casually kicked off rather than neatly lined up to conform to Japanese etiquette. The picture is incredibly shallow spatially; the chair legs appear to be on a single plane, the monk's robe swirls from his back to his sleeves as if it were turning inside out. But this would not bother the Japanese; they used "bird's-eye" perspective-the farther up the picture plane the farther back in pictorial space the object...