Word: tunic
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...Fonssagrives and Vicky Tiel showed their first collection in Paris, Liz contributed her own inspiration for a nuptial garment: a white body stocking worn under a diaphanous floor-length veil embroidered in flowers. But that was nothing compared with the outfit that Liz wore to the opening-a tunic and tights of hyperkinetic geometric pattern. "She's not supposed to be chic," explained Mia. "Her career requires that she be stupefying...
...rioting last July, Jones appeared bent on augmenting his words with action. Heading into the eye of the violence, police testified, Jones had concealed a brace of pearl-handled .32-cal. revolvers beneath the dashboard of his green camper bus and under the folds of his multihued African dashike tunic...
...painstakingly accurate re-creation of life in a military school of imperial Austria. Torless (Matthieu Carriere) is a sensitive boy-the despair of his father and the overweening hope of his mother-who begins his scholastic career at a noted academy. Hardly has he buttoned up his tunic when he begins to sense that military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. His professors are interested in order, not in knowledge; most of his fellow students are toadies and bullies who pervert the authority over them by victimizing those under them. In Tor-less' class, the chief victim is Basini...
...white delegates complaisantly approved the statement. "Anyone who does not like it can go to hell," declared James Forman, a director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. A delegate asked: "Is this a dictatorship?" "Yes," snapped Forman, garbed in a white African tunic and flanked by bodyguards. "And I am the dictator...
...ballads of troubadours who wandered from manor house to manor house. E.S. captured the spirit of it; his saints and sinners, knights and ladies tiptoe through dainty Alpine primroses to dally on wattle fences. At times he was downright satirical. His Samson is a knave in a tunic and Tyrolean hat, his Delilah a Hausfrau who has slipped away for an afternoon assignation. As for St. Sebastian, E.S. portrays him peppered with arrows by a merry lot that looks for all the world like Robin Hood...