Word: zebra
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...Massachusetts Avenue) in Cambridge. The band, which has been in existence for three years, boasts a repetoire of both covers and original songs and a ten-member entourage decked out in plaid on top of stripes on top of floral prints, hot pink tie-dye polyster shirts and zebra-print pants. The high energy and loudness of their mode of dress is only slightly indicative of the quality and finesse of their performances...
...well. It was from Malindi, now a sleepy resort town a two-hour drive up the coast from Mombasa, that he received his most precious tributes: a qilin (or unicorn), a celestial stag and a celestial horse - now identified more prosaically as a giraffe, an oryx and a zebra. Since moving sight unseen to Mombasa in 1992, Li and his family have also taken Africa's natural riches - especially its abundance of rare animals and medicinal herbs - and spun them into treasure. The Lis proudly give me a tour of their traditional Chinese medicine clinic, which is packed with patients...
...Harlem-office decision in some ways certifies that connection. Ever since it became a prominent black area, around 1910, Harlem has been two contradictory neighborhoods-- both the Zebra Room and the Abyssinian Baptist Church. Rudolf Fisher, another Renaissance author, described the place in his novel The Walls of Jericho: It "remains for six nights a carnival, bright with the lights of theaters and night clubs...Then comes Sunday, and for a few hours Seventh Avenue...reflects that air of quiet, satisfied self-righteousness peculiar to chronic churchgoers...
...steak. Wooloomooloo, an Australian restaurant in Berlin, has cleared beef off its menu and now features kangaroo, ostrich and crocodile. For the truly adventurous, the Springbok Café in Chiswick, west London, has been doing what owner Peter Gottgens calls a "roaring trade" in blesbok, impala, kudu, warthog and zebra. Since wild game roams freely and eats natural vegetation, Gottgens calls it "the ultimate organic meat-real organic, not man-made organic...
Hung on the wall in her room is a zebra-pattern death mask that she brought back with her from the country. For her birthday, Lee gave her a harvest mask from Ghana...