Word: robed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frustrations not withstanding, the Kuumbas are thrilling to watch as well as hear when they are onstage. In last week's performance at Burden Hall at the Business school the singers captivated a crowd of over 300 people. Clad in a flowing white choral robe and white slacks, and topped by his shiny black Afro, Ingraham and the dashiki and and Afro-garbed choir exuded a contagious joy and enthusiasm in their singing. The audience forgot its own troubles for three hours and stood up and clapped and chanted and shouted amen and hallelujah with the Kuumbas. Despite the hard...
...Oyez." The last vestiges of court formality disappeared with the installation in 1972 of Justin Ravitz, 33, an avowed Marxist. When he was sworn in, with cowboy boots projecting from under his robe, Ravitz remained seated during the Pledge of Allegiance. It was, he said, a farce, because there is no "liberty and justice for all." When Ravitz enters court there is no cry of "Oyez, oyez, oyez!" and the assemblage does not rise...
Here was the man from Yankee Stadium, dressed in a solid black robe that looked so incongruously effeminate on his ponderous frame. His face seemed lonely without the company of a cigar. Here was this white norteamericano perfunctorily reading prayers in Spanish that probably none of these impoverished peasants could understand. What was more, four or five of the deceased's friends were smoking cigarettes. They had an almost compulsive look on their wind-burnt faces as they held the cigarettes up to their mouths and inhaled frantically, like teenagers trying to get the most out of each drag. Dark...
...Michael's casting down of Satan and the rebel angels has an epic amplitude: the heavens part in a frill of white clouds, and from it the archangel plunges down to drive his spear into the seven-headed Beast; the coiling rush and flutter of his peach-colored robe is full of an ecstatic energy that belies the flat, heraldic space...
Muhammad Ali glowed in a white satin robe while Joe Frazier menaced in crushed velvet with "Smokin' Joe across the back. Still, the two ex-champ fighting last week in Madison Square Garden were all but lost sartorially to their fans. It was a crowd of funk-furred and metallic-threaded celebrities, including Chanteuse Bette Midler in jeans and mink, New York Knick Star Walt Frazier in a bold red and white blazer, Actor Jack Nicholson in loud pin stripes, Barbra Streisand in a sombrero, plus Senators Edward Kennedy and John Tunney in mufti. Ali Partisan John Kennedy...