Word: shroud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...abuse prosecutions. The most successful thing in the Whitney show is a reworking of Man Ray's famous Surrealist object, the wrapped-up sewing machine. Entitled Lumpenprole, it is a room-size afghan rug with (what else?) lumps, the size of children's bodies, beneath it. A burial shroud? A metaphor of silencing, muffling, the defeat of speech? Any of the above, or all, depending on your preference...
...short, and she wore an earring in the shape of a woman symbol." I worry that you make this description so exaggerated as to render it ineffective. (Although I do love your discovery of what it was Sarah had to hide, and why she felt the need to shroud herself in feminism: "I learned that what Sarah hadn't talked about all those years was her parents' Fifth Avenue apartment, the house in Southampton, the horseback-riding lessons she loved as a child. She hadn't talked about the check her parents sent her every month." Besides being so witty...
...squinty eyes, sour mouth and weary walk of a soldier who had been in too many wars. The six-day stubble hid countless psychic scars; the cigar butt stuck between his teeth suggested a world gone up in smoke; the poncho he wore could have been a shroud. As Dirty Harry and a passel of creepy cowboys, Eastwood carried himself with the slow, wily grace of the living dead. Idealism had been blasted out of him -- only a grim irony stirred inside. Unforgiven, his Oscar winner and $100 million smash, was not a valedictory to the Clint persona...
Moreover, police say the shroud surrounding Hogue's background, aliases and all, may be the creation of an highly imaginative--and criminal--mind...
These impacts blasted enough dust into the atmosphere to shroud the entire globe for months on end, blocking sunlight and causing temperatures to plummet. In the cold and dark, plants and animals perished. Compelling evidence of such cataclysms was revealed last summer: scientists confirmed that a giant crater, 176 km (110 miles) across, discovered under the northern tip of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula was the likely impact point of a huge object, probably a comet, believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and other forms of life 65 million years...