Word: scarfed
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...their miniskirts grazing their upper thighs. Sometimes, certain Vespa Girls wore no underwear. Today's UI, still the state-run breeding ground for the nation's future leaders, is a very different place. Half the female student body striding across the campus near Jakarta wear the jilbab, a Muslim scarf that covers the head and neck. Student politics is dominated by the Campus Propagation Institute, an Islamic group that offers religious mentoring and encourages students to adhere to Shari'a, or Islamic law. Female faculty in the Department of Medicine, irrespective of their religion, are barred from wearing short skirts...
...religiously extreme families force girls that young to wear hejab (as the veil is known in Iran), and I looked at my friend inquiringly. The little girl insists on wearing it, my friend told me; she thinks it makes her look like her mommy. The girl beamed beneath her scarf, imagining herself quite grown-up. You can't really explain to a five-year-old that mommy wears hejab because it is mandatory, and that if given the choice, she would prefer otherwise...
...Sauer's home country offers an intriguing case study. In Austria, voters have historically been kind to right-wing politicians. "All the signs would indicate that we should have a prohibitive law against the head scarf," says Sauer. "But it's rarely discussed. And when it is, everyone says they don't want a ban." That's because Austria officially - and legally - recognizes all religions equally. It protects the role of faith in shaping a person's identity...
...little too aware of her literary prowess. An otherwise minor descriptive line will stretch out into a paragraph, a paragraph into a page, a page into a chapter, and so on, with the end result that “Arlington Park” resembles a hardy green woolen scarf whose orderly knit rows are interrupted by splotches of purple silk—beautiful, but entirely out of place.Cusk’s poignant and intuitive portrayal of the frustrations of being a young housewife and her ability to evoke understanding and sympathy for her characters is amazing...
...casts of “Queer Eye” and “Project Runway,” as well as many men sporting the “Stanford Blatch” look, made famous by the “Sex and the City” character: bald, scarf-wearing, dark plastic glasses. Pulsing Euro beats pump into the small tent, overwhelming the audience as they await the start of the show.Tim M. Gunn, “Project Runway” personality and fashion guru, sits front row center, in a fitted grey pinstripe jacket, surrounded by the who?...