Word: shawl
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...vulgarity, the shrewish stepmother (Elaine Bauer), and Cinderella herself (Laura Young), a painfully angelic victim. We can't be expected to take these people seriously, and Cunningham doesn't either. Large chunks of the ballet are given over to slapstick--the stepsisters squabble tug-of-war fashion over a shawl, or trip over each other to greet the Prince (Woytek Lowski). The liveliest moments are high comedy having nothing to do with ballet, and the work becomes difficult to approach on any other level. The happily-ever-after final tableau, signaled by the descent of a festooned crown from...
Leverett--Moon Over a Rainbow Shawl...
...reasons." Noting that everyone at the summit was willing to compromise his religious obligations for the sake of the talks' success, an Israeli participant explained, "If a Jew is aboard a ship which begins listing, what is the first thing he throws overboard? The answer is his prayer shawl and phylacteries. That is what has happened here at Camp David...
...festival's show-stopper is some thing called a sheep-to-shawl race. Teams consisting of a shearer, four spinners and a weaver compete in converting the hair of an unshorn sheep into a woolen shawl, 24 by 60 inches, in less than three hours...
...over to the weavers, who throw shuttles of yarn back and forth across the warps of their looms with metronomic regularity. "More gray, more gray," barks Debbie Abbott, captain of the defending champion, team Minnie and the Hampmonters. Without missing a beat, her spinners turn to. The resulting shawl, complete and ready for auction in less than 2½ hrs., is sold for $75. Straight from producer to consumer...