Word: bazaar
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...TATIANA SOROKKO, former model and Harper's Bazaar contributing editor I'd start off by going to Restaurant Gary Danko, tel: (1-415) 749 2060, a very high-end gourmet establishment with a back room that seats up to 10 people. To sit there with a group of friends and an amazing meal is something I really enjoy. Or you could go to Quince, tel: (1-415) 775 8500, run by the fabulous chef Michael Tusk. It's located on Octavia Street and Mike has incredibly light hands. I always order the pasta. It's Californian cuisine with touches...
...find where they're located in all this." And that has made the new pop fiction a runaway success. Helped additionally by low prices (novels are priced around $5) and new distribution channels (the books are sold on street corners and in department-store chains like Big Bazaar, not just in conventional bookstores), first-time authors are moving more than 20,000 copies a year...
...fearless CIA operative roaming the Middle East, and Russell Crowe as his Stateside boss Ed Hoffman. The movie was scripted by William Monahan, Oscar winner for The Departed, and directed by Ridley Scott, who proved in Black Hawk Down that he knows how to detonate suspense in the bazaar of political ideas. More important, Body of Lies is based on David Ignatius' best seller, which casts Ferris as a good-guy hero, firmly in the spy-novel tradition, and makes him the agent of a devious plot that could just about save the world...
...bills, language that ends up being worth huge amounts to their clients. This week the U.S. financial system is going to be reordered on a scale unseen since F.D.R., and everyone has an interest in that, sometimes to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. In the massive bazaar of legislative trading that is the U.S. Congress, America's elected Representatives are out to get what they can for their most important constituents - be it an equity stake in the companies that the government helps, more aid for struggling homeowners or new limits for executive compensation on Wall Street...
That's true even if you're Paul Theroux, arguably the dean of all living travel writers and certainly one of the most accomplished. In his latest, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux retraces the steps he took in his first notable travel book, The Great Railway Bazaar, published more than 30 years ago. Ghost Train's conceit is Theroux exploring not only how the places he visited back then have changed, but how he has as well. "The decision to return to any early scene in your life is dangerous but irresistible, not as a search for lost...