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3. Believes that Ronald Reagan's critics "weren't qualified to kiss the hem of his garment."
In the countryside, the Mayan women still wear the traditional huipile, a loose cotton slip with embroidered detail; the everyday version has stitching around the neckline and hem, the ceremonial version several layers of embroidery and lace.
Then a range of personal worries about the exact level of the hem came into play.
What struck me was that the hem of her slip was lace.
Draped over an empty chair, the subject's expressive hands could be playing the piano or summoning up the ghost of her recently deceased father, whose stacks of papers and Egyptian funerary art hem her in.