Word: scarfe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gary Snyder, an American poet who celebrates Zen and nature, looked like a man-in-the-mountain come down last night as he descended the stairs to the Hilles Cinema stage, clad in forest green and carrying his poems in a knotted scarf...
...movie. It is almost as if Andy Warhol had decided to film Camelot. "Come in," Edie purrs soothingly, "we're not ready yet." She is thoroughly disorganized--she wears her dresses upside down, empties loaves of Wonderbread for the raccoons in the attic, dons a different makeshift scarf in each sequence to cover her head (which may or may not be bald...
...particularly suspicious when Movie Actor Mitsuyasu Maeno appeared at Tokyo's Chofu Airport last week in a World War II kamikaze pilot's uniform, complete with white scarf and with risingsun flags emblazoned on his right sleeve and on his warrior's headband. As he rented a single-engine Piper Cherokee from a local flying club, he explained that he was merely doing a publicity turn for a new film on the 1944-45 suicide pilots...
...that he can no longer see well enough to read a note of music or see the keys beneath his fingers. Age has been weakening his eyes in recent years, and for the last four months he has had only peripheral vision. He can see his wife's scarf by looking at her nose, but the center of his field of vision is a dark, impenetrable cloud. The prospects of his learning new music are nil. "I must rely entirely on my memory," he says. Fortunately that memory is photographic and still in focus...
Most Russian school children wear red scarves to signify their membership in the Young Pioneers, a group which is the first step on the road to becoming a Party member. "All Russian kids were Pioneers," he recalls. "It was a disgrace to have your scarf taken away when you misbehaved." Schecter, who was unable to wear the symbolic scarlet scarf as an American, said that this did not alienate him from his friends...