Word: shawled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Undergraduates appear to prefer jackets with shawl collars (rounded style), although the notch collar (as on a sports jacket) is also popular, says Goldstein. "The shawl collar is a more classic style," says Frusztajer, who owns several tuxes for on-stage performances...
...young Jew had come from America to Israel for his Bar Mitzvah at Jerusalem's revered Western Wall. Wrapped in a prayer shawl and wearing phylacteries, he recited the Torah blessings flawlessly and with that he became a man in the tribe of Israel. But this Jew, Little Sun Bordeaux, also belongs to another tribe, the Teton Sioux, and claims to be a descendant of Chief Crazy Horse through his paternal grandfather, Chief Eagle. Tribal elders dispute the claim, saying Crazy Horse had no children, but Little Sun's mother Armalona Greenfield insists, "Chief Eagle told me, and he would...
...Pope John Paul in a white robe and Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff in a prayer shawl, stood side by side in Rome's main synagogue for a moment of silent prayer. Then they joined in an enthusiastic embrace. The throng of 1,000 people packed into the ornate synagogue, 40 of whom were survivors of Nazi death camps, burst into thunderous applause. Some wept openly...
Prizes--including trips for two to Bermuda and New York, a mink shawl, and a compact disc player--will be raffled off or given to the dancers who collect the most money. All participants will also receive a prize when they turn in their pledges...
Though the role might have winded any singer, Luciano Pavarotti easily sustained the ringing high notes, the plaintive appoggiaturas, the hummingbird runs and trills. Not his own, but those of 150 hopeful young singers. Bespectacled and wrapped in a colorful shawl, the celebrated tenor spent the past two weeks judging the finals of the second Opera Company of Philadelphia/ Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition. "If you win this competition," said Pavarotti at the outset, "it promises you an opportunity. But more important, if you do not win, it doesn't mean you will not have a career." Still, the expansive...