Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before a steaming cup at the Baghdad Coffee House in the heart of Bahrain's Indian bazaar was of an age where he no longer cared that government informers might overhear him. "Listen to me," he demanded, urgently tapping a Westerner on the knee. "Any time an independent Arab leader looks strong," he boomed, "the West beats him down. They did it with Nasser. They have run a vilification campaign against Assad. And look what they did to Arafat. It dates from the Crusades, and it will never change." The man, a retired printer, paused. "Saddam will not win this...
Among the scariest of Saddam's options would be to exploit the tens of thousands of foreign nationals who are stranded in Iraq and Kuwait. Both countries are a hostage taker's dream bazaar. Among the expatriates in Kuwait are 3,000 Americans, 3,000 Britons and 3,000 Turks. In Iraq there are an additional 500 Americans, 2,000 Britons, 8,000 Soviets and 3,000 Turks. Last week Iraq sealed its borders and Kuwait's. Later, 11 Americans, all of them Baghdad embassy staff and their dependents, except for 10-year-old Penelope Nabokov, were allowed to depart...
...qualms about spending the inheritance. Sabena Knust, owner of a Munich art gallery, says lots of money is being poured into modern art: an original painting by a contemporary artist goes for $50,000, a print for $4,000. Regina Spelman, an editor at the German-language Harper's Bazaar, sees vast amounts being spent on apparel: "Germans use clothes to define their place in society and are willing to spend a lot to make a statement." Hamburg Designer Peter Schmidt notes that "people are willing to pay to surround themselves with well-designed things." Kurt Gustmann, an editor...
Saint Laurent managed to dominate the news in the semiannual pret-a-porter bazaar -- clothes that are manufactured in quantity at much lower prices than the hand-sewed fantasies of haute couture. It was, however, not his fluent, confident designs but his health that made headlines: the fragile designer was hospitalized a few days before his show. His partner, Pierre Berge, issued a statement blaming nervous exhaustion and emphasizing to an AIDS-ravaged industry that no infectious disease was involved...
...difficult to find heroes and villains. The journalistic world is not like some slave market, in which the roles of exploiter and exploited are clear-cut. It is more like a chaotic bazaar, filled with news peddlers trying to get public exposure and journalists seeking dramatic stories, quotes or facts. Some vendors come to the bazaar for sport: New York hoaxer Alan Abel, for example, specializes in planting false news items, like last fall's stories about the bogus $35 million lottery winner. Others show up because it is their job. Writing in the Gannett Center Journal, Scott Cutlip...