Word: beret
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...He’s “Assistant Professor of Chemistry AND Chemical Biology AND of Physics.” We’d like to tell you a parable, A-dumb, about a little boy who wore too many hats. He wore a fez, a sombrero, and a beret. No one liked him because he just couldn’t choose one hat, and insisted on always wearing all three, despite the fact that doing so was cumbersome and ostentatious. Soon, he had people of three different ethnicities beating him in the streets. Just keep that in mind, Adam...
...spending of be-bonused Wall Streeters, were sent reeling in the wake of September 11.Consciousness does not, apparently, conflate preparedness. More and more, it appears that these nine-to-five artistes are just as without direction in this crisis as the rest of the world. Their bread crusts and beret counterparts–that is, the unsigned musicians and freelance visual artists–should be less affected by the crisis, given their relative removal from financial systems. To boot, rents are plummeting in major cities across the country, as is the cost of living. This is something...
...BLUE IN CRIMSON LANDIn addition to the common misconception that street performers are not talented artists, it is also easy to assume that they are uneducated. Looking at Dr. Hugh M. Hill ’48, who sports glasses with blue-tinted lenses, a blue coat and a blue beret both accessorized with large, metallic blue butterflies, one would never guess that the sash across his chest that reads “Brother Blue: Storyteller” could also list a number of his academic accomplishments. Brother Blue began his street performing career as a Harvard undergraduate in the 1940s...
...their man, guns slung over their shoulders and pointed down, trigger fingers running along the guard - the pose of elite troops from Fort Bragg to the southern Philippines. Nkunda is a man who manages his appearance carefully, cutting a tall and slightly dandyish figure in combat fatigues, a purple beret and gold-rimmed glasses, and carrying a black cane topped with a silver eagle's head. At times, he has affected a prophet-preacher look: a long flowing black overcoat, a high cream woollen polo neck and a wide-brimmed black felt preacher's hat. But for the rally - perhaps...
...breakaway Chávista candidate. The PSUV also took about two-thirds of the total national vote and kept the opposition from winning the seven or eight states it needed to stun Chávez. If the radical, anti-U.S. firebrand showed anything, it's that his red-beret power and popularity are relatively intact...