Word: cladding
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...month ago, a Pajero jeep with four men and three burka-clad women was stopped at a checkpoint in Chapri, a village with an ancient stone arch that serves as a gateway to the Pakistani tribal region. Two tribal militiamen questioned one of the passengers and was surprised that he spoke no Pashtu. He was a Yemenite. All the passengers were ordered out of the car, and the militiamen noticed that the women in the burkas were very tall; one of them wore men's sandals. They turned out to be African men, two Sudanese and a Mauritanian. Their Pakistani...
What do you get when you cross a rainbow-clad clown, midgets, a Barney-like purple rhinoceros, murder and plenty of mayhem? The result is Death to Smoochy, a pitch-black comedy directed by Danny DeVito (The War of the Roses, Matilda). This caricature juxtaposes its yang—children’s television, complete with its Barneys and Teletubbies—with its evil counterpart yin—the industry’s dark underside, with its deception, fraud and, yes, homicide...
...broke through in 1966's "The Wrong Box" and 1967's "Bedazzled," the recently remade careful-what-you-wish-for comedy that starred Moore as the lovelorn nebbish and Cook as a mod-clad Satan. In 1969 Moore wrote and arranged the music for "30 is a Dangerous Age"; in 1972 Moore played the Dormouse - what else? - in a live-action "Alice in Wonderland" alongside established Brit stars Ralph Richardson, Michael Crawford and Peter Sellers...
...first, the effect is disorienting, almost off-putting. Nothing seems original, and the sights and sounds are reminiscent of a mental ward. But all quickly comes together as Naila B. McKenzie ’02, clad in purple, wove the discordant sounds into a colorful monologue. The audience is introduced into a world where women of color must take the daunting chaos that envelops them and fashion their own strong identities...
...yesterday, as Ann Romney stood beside her husband, clad in an Olympic jacket, Mitt Romney credited her with encouraging...