Word: stilts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high heel goes way, way back. Sixteenth-century Turkey witnessed the birth of the stiletto heel's earliest ancestor, the chopine, a wooden clog that could reach stilt height. Later, a more narrowly heeled shoe for women emerged during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. And in the eighteenth century, the French began their fashion influence with lovely decorated leather or silk shoes on high heels set under the arch of the foot...
...baby carriages at the beginning to the giant lumbering snail at the climax, director Franco Dragone peoples the stage with outlandish figures from a Bosch or Robert Wilson dreamscape. They have sad eyes or pinheads or faces on the backs of their heads, or they wander about pensively on stilt legs, passersby in the parade of life. They somnambulate while the acrobats somersault on a trampoline bent up at the ends, as others jump from one vertical pole to another using only leg power -- and that gorgeous bungee ballet of angels unfolds to Rene Dupere's ethereal music. For this...
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Limbo contests, fire-eaters and stilt-walkers entertained about 200 residents at the Quad on Saturday. Students said they danced to live music and enjoyed authentic West Indian food...
Saturday's festivities coincide with the Caribbean Club carnival in the Quad, which will have vendors, a steel drum band, a stilt-walker and game booths. The council will run a Spring Fling shuttle bus from Lowell House courtyard and Johnston Gate...