Word: bazaar
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...That night, I set out to check my e-mails in Peshawar's old bazaar. The only Internet place is up a dark, winding stairway, past a group of Koranic students weaving mats for the wall of a mosque. At the Internet shop, my driver Raza unabashedly dashes from machine to machine, staring wide-eyed. "Mr. Tim," he pleads, "can you give me computer lesson?" Impressed by his new enthusiasm for technology, I agree. Then I glance over at the other Net aficionados. They're teenagers, wearing baggy salwar kameez outfits and prayer caps, and all of them are staring...
...Death to Americans" shouted the mullah, his right arm punching the air. "Death to Americans" responded the crowd of several thousand men, gathered in the narrow streets of the Qissa Khawani bazaar in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar after Friday prayers. They had congregated outside the mosque to listen to speakers denounce the U.S. and its war against terrorism. At the back of the crowd a man raised a straw effigy of President Bush, set it alight, and then others flailed at the burning straw with sticks...
Twenty-year-old Rosina Olaloco was killed when grenades exploded at the Maubusa market in East Timor, a stone's throw from Indonesian West Timor. At this cross-border bazaar, children wheel through the bustle like sparrows as veterans of the pro-Indonesian militia that razed the country two years ago mingle with farmers, stallholders and smugglers. Rosina was not the only victim of the May 29 attack; in their rage over a gambling debt, former members of the Dangi Dadaras Merah Putih militia killed four other people and wounded more than...
...politics and business, but in the realm of music it has a nice ring to it--and a funky beat, and a tantalizing groove. Today musicians and listeners the world over are plugged into one another via the Internet, TV and ubiquitous recordings. The result is a vast electronic bazaar through which South African kwaito music can make pulses pound in Sweden, or Brazilian post-mambo can set feet dancing in Tokyo. Cultures are borrowing the sounds of other cultures, creating vibrant hybrids that are then instantly disseminated around the globe to begin the blending process all over again. "Musically...
When one looks at the altered covers of Mirabella, Harper’s Bazaar and Town and Country, the construction of the cover art becomes the central focus. The clarity, color and composition of the image is what commands the onlooker’s attention, rather than the headlines emblazoned along the margins of the page. Udé has also modified the headlines of the articles contained within the magazines to evoke the main themes present within his entire body of art work. Such fictitious articles include: “A Short History of Beauty...