Word: sackclothed
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...elders, President Nyerere's sackcloth socialism has produced an official austerity seldom matched in Africa. Members of Parliament are forbidden to own shares in businesses, cannot be corporate directors, and must forfeit their salary of $160 a week if they have any outside income. Only beer is served at government receptions, and the swiftest way to political oblivion is to be a wa-benzi, or the owner of a big car like a Mercedes-Benz...
...like displaying Venus draped in sackcloth. Yet there was Ursula Andress, 32, the smoky Swiss beauty of The Tenth Victim and Dr. No, all swaddled in an ankle-length car duster. And that about describes her latest flick, Southern Star, currently shooting in the wilds of Senegal. Ursula spends most of the movie jouncing around in a 1912 Rochet-Schneider trying to spring her fiancé (George Segal) from the local hoosegow where he's been tossed by her dad as a suspected jewel thief. But voyeurs need not despair: hopefully, in Ursula's next film...
...zany wedding tableau in which an irate father, pressed past mind and pocketbook, cannot budge his distraught daughter out of a locked bathroom to the altar. He threatens, he cajoles, he implores. He nearly breaks his arm ramming the door. He rends his cutaway till it looks like sackcloth and he looks like ashes. Scott's countenance of epic frustration is phenomenally funny: a middle-aged Lear confronted with a thankless offspring. The evening's master treat, a carnival of sight-and-sound gags, this skit shows how Simon and Nichols can take a sit uation no bigger...
...pressure on France to stop vetoing British entry into the Common Market and stop meddling in such West German affairs as relations with East Germany. But De Gaulle overplayed his hand, making the Germans more determined than ever to press him. "I will not travel to Paris in sackcloth and ashes," said Brandt, "and this applies all the more to the Chancellor. It is high time that we put an end to what many in this country regard as sheer mischief...
Half-Mile Walk. The unprecedented act of penitence, undertaken by representatives of every corner of Roman Catholicism, implied a corporate acknowledgment of the church's sins ? an admission of humility for "the spotless bride of Christ" that would have been unthink able a decade ago. Yet, instead of sackcloth and ashes, the prel ates wore vestments of red and purple, and the venerable fathers for whom the half-mile walk would have been the slightest physical ordeal were discreetly excused from the ceremony. The place of honor in the procession, as always, was given to the Pope; but this...