Word: scarfe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jacqueline Onassis was clearly a sane woman. She kept a seemly silence. And for all the fragility she may have suggested in the big, round sunglasses and the head scarf, she wore some inner armoring; she possessed an eerie talent (a strategy of self-protection well known to those who handle dangerous animals) to make herself disappear, to dematerialize. If you saw her on the street, she would seem to abstract herself out of public attention, a kind of elegant vanishing. She would be, as she finally is now . . . elsewhere...
According to the February article, Gates in Paris was "furious" because a French couple mistook him for a taxi driver even though he "was standing in the lobby of [his] chic Latin Quarter hotel, in [his] handmade suit, Burberry coat and Paul Stewart scarf...." Gates was furious apparently because "[t]hose guys just weren't seeing...
...appropriate at the same time. Rather than trying to psychoanalyze the pianist, the film seems content to keep the theme of Gould open to interpretation. The film derives much of its humor from the ongoing bewilderment and second-guessing of his friends. Why did Gould insist upon wearing a scarf, hat, and gloves throughout the summer? Why did he set the piano bench so low that he played the keyboard at eye level? Why did he keep 42 botles of ketchup in his hotel room? One hotel chambermaid earnestly explains how all the other maids refused to work...
...friend of ours in the House was aself-styled Bolshevik--the big beard, the Sovietcap and the bright red scarf. He didn't knowwhether he was Lenin or Trotsky. He even boycottedbathing for six weeks to make a politicalstatement," Brooks recalls. "He walked into ourroom and said...`You two will be condemned by theRevolution...'He then pulled out a gun, aimed itat my head and pulled the trigger...It must havebeen a cap gun or a starter's pistol. Bill justkind of chuckled and shrugged...
...endless enthusiasm, shows the effects of 14 years on the street. Her teeth are rotting and crooked, her face is filled with deep crevices and she has to steady herself in order to sit down or stand up. Her head is covered by a thick brown wig and a scarf all year round...