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  • protest group, however, said investigators seemed to be relying on fabricated testimony and were trying to divert responsibility from security forces to so-called black-clad gunmen, often seen during the protests last year.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • This is not the Hollywood of nightclubs and swank eateries and black-clad hipsters; it's another Hollywood, not as well-known or publicized, of gangbangers and teenage pregnancies and deportation hearings, of families torn and struggling, not to score their own reality show, but simply to survive intact to face another tough day.

    Neil Zevnik: Rolling Out the Red Carpet: A Different Hollywood Tale Neil Zevnik 2011

  • A black-clad man with a walkie-talkie shouted at them to come back.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Forget Hezbollah, and its rockets and “resistance” and its black-clad commandos.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Throngs of veiled women and black-clad men mingled with Beirut girls wearing low-slung jeans and visible thongs in Hezbollah yellow.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • A black-clad figure in a cape strode forward and pushed up his mask.

    Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011

  • This is not the Hollywood of nightclubs and swank eateries and black-clad hipsters; it's another Hollywood, not as well-known or publicized, of gangbangers and teenage pregnancies and deportation hearings, of families torn and struggling, not to score their own reality show, but simply to survive intact to face another tough day.

    Neil Zevnik: Rolling Out the Red Carpet: A Different Hollywood Tale Neil Zevnik 2011

  • But now the black-clad protector of the Queen City may pray for the day when those were his biggest concerns.

    Real-life superheroes, your days are numbered! | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • Dread swept beneath my skin as the raven transformed into a black-clad woman perched on her haunches on the peak of the tomb, her hands curling over the edge, fingernails long and vicious, a wicked grin on her lips.

    Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011

  • PITTSBURGH (AP) Gold and black-clad fans with Steelers 'iconic Terrible Towels waving in the air or tucked into their back pockets partied into the early morning hours Monday in an impromptu block party across Pittsburgh to celebrate the team's historic sixth Super Bowl win.

    Party time for Pittsburgh fans 2009

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