Word: clothe
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...play opens on a traditionally domestic scene in early twentieth-century Eastern Europe. Schulz daubs a gauzy beige cloth with paint, engrossed in his artwork...
...step inside Nyamata church and my guide, Josh Ruxin, points out the wall where babies were smashed up against the brick. "You can still see the blood," he says. More blood, wide dry brown stains, covers the altar cloth. Against a side wall, I find two new-looking closed coffins covered in cloth, a stack of 20 more, empty and expectant, and an open sack scattered with ribs, femurs and broken skulls. "Oh yeah," says Ruxin, looking over. "Thirteen years later, they're still finding new bodies round here every day." We walk around to the front of the church...
...invited to Harvard. Indeed, I have debated several of them, including Noam Chomsky. Nor have I “endorsed Israel’s torture of Palestinian prisoners.” Indeed, I wrote a law review article criticizing Israeli interrogation practices. Matory simply makes up out of whole cloth everything he says about me. I can only surmise that what he has written about others is equally false...
...First created during the Mataram kingdom in the 17th century, batik has been historically appreciated throughout the Indonesian archipelago, but especially by the people of central and eastern Java, where the technique of wax-resist dyeing originated. In recent decades, though, batik has gone into crisis: handworked cloth simply cannot compete in price with mass-produced printed textiles. Changes in the manufacture of batik - with several assembly-line workers now robotically completing individual stages that were once handled by a single highly skilled artisan - have also diminished the cloth's allure. Government support has become essential to the industry...
...hundreds of dollars (a top-of-the-line item, like a custom-made wedding kebaya, or blouse, can cost up to $10,000). "I am simply trying to breathe new life into the craft," Obin says. "What I would really like to do is wrap the whole world in cloth." So long as it's her cloth, the world isn't likely to mind...