Word: shawled
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...only cold, she is consciously evil. Raising her eyes to meet Giorgio's tormented shock of recognition through the garden-house window, when he discovers her with Malnate, she stares back at him with the full meanness of her decayed sensibilities. With a magnificently erotic gesture, she tosses the shawl she had draped around herself over Malnate to cover his nakedness, exposing her own nudity with contemptuous defiance...
...lawyer in a Brooks Brothers suit (Michael Tolan), his very pregnant wife (Rose Arrick), a Talmudic scholar (Lou Jacob!) and the scholar's helper (David Ackroyd). The assistant is a bearded D.P. who survived a concentration camp with only the ghetto garb of a black suit, small prayer shawl and broad-brimmed...
...troubled textile industry, double knit clothes-apparel made of specially knitted material instead of woven cloth-stand out like a bright golden thread in a frayed gray shawl. The upheaval caused by double knits has brought fresh earnings and excitement to the industry, created new textile firms and technology, provided a rich source of sales for profit-parched merchants, and satisfied restless consumer demand for increasingly varied fashions...
...affidavits printed here were written to show how vital the need for confidentiality is in Chomsky's search for the truth about American foreign policy. But, equally important, they show how valuable this work is, given the present shawl of secrecy which covers and protects this ruthless policy...
...ordinary Sabbaths his new synagogue in the round is filled, and more than half the worshipers are young adults under 30. But Riskin has prepared middle-aged men as well as teenagers for Bar Mitzvah, and last Yom Kippur gave an 80-year-old man his first prayer shawl...