Word: robing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...height itself worries few tenants; no acrophobe would ever think of moving in. Curtains are not really necessary, although residents use them simply to produce a sense of intimacy or to screen out the early-morning sun. One female tenant, flinging open her curtains one morning before donning a robe, confronted a window washer dangling outside the pane. He was almost as startled...
...party, even putting on his "red dress" for the occasion because the children liked it. One small boy at the school may have spoken for much of the world when a radio reporter asked him to describe Santa Claus. "He's big, and he wears a long red robe," said the child. "And," the boy continued, talking out of the side of his mouth in a raspy voice, "he talks like this...
...down my robe...
Clerance Felder as the Devil then dons angel's robe and halo and takes the "high road" to tempt the Soldier. No longer a sadist, the Devil has become an effeminate masochist...
...feet implacably planted athwart the body of Herod, in symbolic triumph. With the gift of Contini-Bona-cossi's St. Jerome, Florence will have one of the half-dozen finest small Bellinis to be seen anywhere in Europe. Every detail, from the folds of the saint's robe to the squirrel on a branch behind him, was imagined and recorded by Bellini as the concrete signs of God's grace investing the world. Bellini came 50 years before Titian, but 100 years before him Paolo Veneziano demonstrated to Venetians, in works like The Birth of St. Nicholas...