I want her to get it for something equally valuable yet rarely valued and just as hard: pulling off feather-light confections where she beguilingly distracts us not only from the holes in the script but from the miseries, large or small, in our own lives.
A few feet away, men in loincloths and flip-flops squatted precariously on the thin edge of large vats of water, tearing off feathers and dunking birds into the murky liquid.
Fans of the designer's kooky aesthetic still will find things to love in this collection, like an abstract amalgamation of ski paraphernalia stitched in colorful sequins on a shirt finished off with feather fringe.
Loki flies off, the feather cloak whistling, away from Jötunheimr and back to the court of the gods.
Freyja agrees, and says she would lend it to Thor even if it were made of silver or gold, and Loki flies off, the feather cloak whistling.
The carcasses then go through the feather-picking machines, which are equipped with rubber "fingers" specifically designed to beat off the feathers.
They only show off their feathers for other peacocks".
The add-on factor: an arty image of scissors cutting off bird feathers.
The headstone is engraved with two roosters facing off, their feathers ruffled.
Objects assume louche poses on the concrete floor, their surfaces draped with cast-off clothing — feather boas, trousers, straitjackets — and magazine layouts.
Old Abe's other near miss occurred during the siege of Vicksburg in 1863 when a Confederate minie ball grazed his neck and chest, taking off the feathers in its path and damaging his left wing.
