Word: tunics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mount Morris Park in Harlem, a neighborhood where the wail of police sirens is a part of the constant atmosphere. There all the big trucks staged an incongruous arrival, grunting and respirating into position on a baseball field while crowds gathered. Soon a rehearsing actor was standing in a tunic and sandals before a gaping group of Harlem youths. He tried to explain to them that in the play he is a character called Demetrius, who gets lost in the woods...
...with a shaky, inaudible voice and trembling feet to reply to questions?" Through the uproar, a waxen, drowsy figure sat hunched over on the front row of the horseshoe-shaped chamber; about the only thing reminiscent of the dynamic Nehru of old was the red rose in his white tunic...
...reasonable paper in other respects, used to paint out the nipples of male wrestlers and other shirtless athletes. The Atlanta Journal supplies shirts. Before passing an ad for the movie The Love Makers, in which Claudia Cardinale reposes on the chest of Jean-Paul Belmondo, the Journal daubed a tunic on Belmondo. In Southern California, where seminudity is a way of life, the Los Angeles Times does its best to spare readers what they can see on any beach...
Lear is the most titanic figure in all drama. When Carnovsky first enters, dressed in a purple tunic, a silver-trimmed orange cloak, and a heavy gray embossed baldric, he mounts an improvised black bear-skin throne, stands with right hand alott, and all those present instinctively kneel. Though an octogenarian, this Lear is no weakling. He is not just a great man; he is not even just a king; he seems to be almost a god implanted on Olympus. (In an inspired touch, this same bit of business is pathetically echoed towards the end of the play...
...opened fire at point-blank range. But the royal troops held out until the next day, when the Imam darted through a breach in the wall. A woman in a nearby house helped him replace his fancy clothes with a common soldier's khaki tunic, and Badr safely made his way to neighboring Saudi Arabia...