Word: tunic
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...kind of painting that used to be cited, with 20/20 hindsight, as the product of an "essentially feminine" sensibility, a painting as full of style and chic as an egg is of albumin. But is the kind of sensibility in its design-the springy black silhouette of blouse and tunic relieved by one dash of white, the brisk notation of the face smeared and flecked by the black lace veil, the emphatic circumflex of the painted fan behind the girl's head-essentially different from that of Degas, Cassatt's mentor? Stylishness does not go by gender; perhaps...
Beyond the receiving line was the bier. A red party flag was draped over the Chairman's familiar gray tunic. His face looked old, but also unwrinkled and at rest. Unlike at Chou En-lai's funeral last January, when only an urn containing the late Premier's ashes was displayed, the Chairman's body has been brought before the Chinese people for a final heroic display. Many believed that, like Lenin, Mao would be embalmed and enshrined in a special mausoleum. As they would before an emperor of old -or a father-the Chinese wept...
...personally ordained everything from the country's total nationalization program two years ago to such personal touches as dictating that Zaïreans drop their Christian names for African ones, address one another as "citizen" and "citizeness," and wear a form of national dress-batik sarongs for women, tunic suits for men. Absolute wealth has tended to follow absolute power; Mobutu-whose personal interests include property in Spain and Switzerland -has been widely described as one of the wealthiest...
...stands. Part way down the hall, the party was directed left into Mao's study. He was sitting in a light green overstuffed chair. A nurse helped the 81-year-old Mao stand up and he greeted the Ford family first. He was dressed in a blue-gray tunic and black slippers. His hair was gray but his face was tanned (one American wondered silently if he used a sun lamp in the chilly climes of Peking). His handshake was firm, his voice low and rumbling (somewhat like Kissinger's without the German accent...
...from Peking. The welcome in Phnom-Penh was equally effusive. Cheering crowds of Khmer Rouge soldiers, Buddhist monks, civil servants and workers greeted the royal entourage at the recently repaired Pochentong Airport, focal point of last April's Communist siege of the capital. Clad in a black, tunic-style Chinese suit, Sihanouk saluted the flag, reviewed the troops and then proceeded by motorcade to the royal palace in Phnom-Penh...