Dressed all in black, she strides purposefully across the vast exhibition hall, her presence nearly dwarfing even the mural-sized Marc Chagall stretching from floor to ceiling behind her.

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"One of the biggest healers was getting the first horse for my friends, " said Douglas, dressed all in black and wearing sunglasses at the Meydan Hotel which overlooks the track.

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Tsarnaeva, wearing a headscarf and dressed all in black, said she now regrets moving her family to the U.S. and believes they would have been better off in a village in her native Dagestan.

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In 1960, or thereabouts, I went with my parents and sister to the Rep's Christmas pantomime, where the male lead was played by a young, charismatic actor, who was diabolically dressed all in black.

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Dead Addict, a lanky 34-year-old dressed in all black and a bowler hat, points out that he began using the Internet in the early '90s, even before the advent of Internet service providers.

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Fellow poker player Robert Williamson dressed in all black and white, from his hat to his shoes, with one exception socks covered in sometimes neon-colored daisies.

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Swans fans came dressed in all manner of costumes from nuns in black and white to mannequins and jesters.

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Right down to the security guard, they are all female and dressed in the traditional black abaya and sheila worn by most Gulf women.

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All four members of the group had short hair and dressed identically, in black button-down shirts, black pants, and shiny shoes, which made them look more like valets than like musicians.

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