Word: banquet
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...WEEK WITH HIM. He doesn't strike you as the typical thuggish warrior chieftain. He is too courtly, too intellectual. But when he was in exile in Pakistan, Hamid Karzai had an intensity that attracted all kinds of Afghans to his salons. I remember sitting at a Karzai banquet with an Afghan former communist general, a Kunduz tribal elder and a wizened chess master. Karzai listened to them as equals, and they in turn were inspired by his quiet determination. Then one day I heard that Karzai had hopped a motorcycle, smuggled himself into southern Afghanistan and started his dangerous...
...number plates or else a customized tour bus with a small living room complete with satellite TV. His ranch is surprisingly modest, but features an expensive collection of some of the world's finest Arabian and thoroughbred horses. His main meal at 7 p.m. sharp is a sumptuous banquet of Arabic and Continental cuisine, these days including rare mushrooms known as desert truffles that grow wild after winter rains...
...would have no problem if members of Taiwan's ruling party were to visit the mainland. Last week a senior official spoke of opening direct shipping and trade links between the two nations as soon as possible. At least one pioneering tourist is ready. After sampling a Taiwanese seafood banquet, he wants to import Taiwan fish to China...
...those in her Paris neighborhood. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's scurrying narrative and cinematic gamesmanship (a style that could be called faux Truffaut) may at times weary viewers used to Hollywood's burlier, spell-it-all-out mode. But give me, any day, a film that offers a groaning banquet table of invention and enchantment--and a showcase for world-class beguiler Tautou...
...those in her Paris neighborhood. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's scurrying narrative and cinematic gamesmanship (a style that could be called faux Truffaut) may at times weary viewers used to Hollywood's burlier, spell-it-all-out mode. But give me, any day, a film that offers a groaning banquet table of invention and enchantment - and a showcase for world-class beguiler Tautou...