Word: cladding
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...students who occupied a University building three weeks later arrived with a press release and, clad in suits and dresses, looked as if they were off to a management training seminar. They told administrators they had no intention of "disrupting business as usual" and spoke in hushed voices. At the end of the day, several students vacuumed up the crumbs they had left from lunch. Before going into the building, the activists had determined everything form the way the students would dress to the way they would address administrators in the building...
...most famous teenager go to celebrate the end of her teens? Gosh, gee, well, why not a male strip joint? Accompanied by her mother and a retinue of 17 femme friends (some from Princeton), Brooke Shields oh-oh- ogled the boys at Chippendales in Manhattan as one G-string-clad male after another gyrated in her direction. "She was giggling," reported a guest to the New York Post. "Sometimes she looked scared. She was very natural, very receptive, very nice to them." And, despite the salacious surroundings, very ladylike. When one hunk hoisted Shields into his arms, she demurely reached...
...striking images are among the finest surviving examples of ancient Egyptian art. They depict the passage into the next life of a slim young woman clad in a diaphanous gown, her toenails polished white, her eyes outlined with kohl, her every need seen to by the servants and deities surrounding her. The accompanying inscriptions leave no doubt about her identity: Queen Nefertari, the favorite wife of Ramses II, Egypt's greatest pharaoh...
...Eccentrics abound in that household. Rosa the Beautiful, for example, possesses a head of green hair that hangs "like a botanical mantle" down to her waist. Nicolas Trueba moves from one enterprise to another, successively teaching flamenco dancing, building a zeppelin, running a chicken-sandwich factory, traveling around India clad in an infant's diaper, and writing a 1,500-page treatise on the 99 names...
Imagine this courtyard full of carefree, scantily clad young people, and then realize that once again New England weather has played a sadistic trick. For what we have here is a mob of goose bumpy, shivering, bluish victims of spring fever. Poor fools myself included who insist that it is spring just because the calendar tells us that it is April Just the other morning Rich Heller wisely warned us that it was going to be only partly sunny and that although it might be in the 60's inland, those near the coast must grapple with 50 degree weather...