Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lonely and exacting business. Paul Theroux (The Mosquito Coast, The Great Railway Bazaar) is succinct: "Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves." Robert Stone (Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise) is windy and funny: "I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner. So, I thought, I'm really feeling crazy today, I think I'll go see a shrink ... He was everything that a psychiatrist should be: ... Jewish ... very together, very humane. I went to him, and I talked to him, and he said, 'What you need is religion...
...true quality thwarted. Distanced from the work by crowds and railings, they may listen on their Acoustiguides to the plummy vowels of the Met's director, Philippe de Montebello, discoursing like an undertaker on the merits of the deceased. Then they will be decanted into the bazaar of postcards, datebooks, scarves-everything but limited-edition bronze ashtrays in the shape of the Holy Ear-that the Met provides as a coda. Finally, laden with souvenirs like visitors departing from Lourdes, they will go home. Vincent, we hardly knew...
...before sunrise, the office buildings still lit from the night, while chains of cars rolled quickly along the curving highway with their headlights shining. You do feel the confidence. I'll tell you my strongest memory, though. One morning at Market Hall, where the convention had its gift bazaar, a man mistook a glass wall for an open door and crashed straight into it. The window exploded all over him. I held his face to assess the damage, but he got off lucky: shaken up, with a scratch on his nose. He was sure he had been heading...
Capitalizing on the rage for things Oriental that had also seized writers such as Pierre Loti and Gustave Flaubert and scholars like Sir Richard Burton, the Orientalist artists vied with one another in seeking out exotica. Harems aside, the subjects that most mesmerized them were slave markets, carpet bazaars, whirling dervishes, Arab stallions, caravans of caparisoned camels and wind-whipped burnooses of Bedouins on the sands of the Sahara. "There is a fortune to be made for painters in Cairo," noted William Makepeace Thackeray on a visit to Egypt in 1844. "I never saw such a variety of architecture...
Koppel says that the format and subjects discussed on "Nightline" are appropriate for television because. "Television is the bazaar in which we do our shopping." "It's the place that causes us to make up our mind on everything from jockey shorts to president," he adds...