Word: bazaar
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Before he became a man capable of taking those pictures, Avedon transformed fashion photography. Certainly he knew about elegance. His portrait of Marella Agnelli, with its plain sources in the swan-necked women of 16th century Mannerism, tells you that. But in the pages of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue he undid decades of the simply fashionable. What he offered in place of the chic was cheek. In one giddy series of pictures from 1962, he had Suzy Parker, one of the first supermodels, high-stepping it around Paris with Mike Nichols, a funny young couple...
...insisted on returning to Kabul. Half-jokingly, Karzai said, "I'm an Afghan, and I promise I'll take my revenge." Sure enough, the next day, Karzai slipped past his American protectors and, with two baffled Afghan bodyguards in tow, commandeered a driver to take him to a Kabul bazaar. The President wanted to buy a pomegranate...
...bombs, "Muslims Only" was struck from the website, and security at the gate was beefed up. None of that hampered the hybrid entertainment unfolding within. Boardwalk barkers persevered ("Arright, at the sound of the buzzer, you want to press both buttons on the gun") but competed with a bazaar offering stylish Islamic headwear and Koranic commentaries. Standard food concessions were shuttered in favor of ritually correct halal vendors like Shalimar and Kabob King. There was no opposite-sex canoodling, and halter tops and shorts were replaced by a vast array of hijab head scarves and ankle-length jilbabs and abayas...
...senior move is a major organizational challenge," says Novack. "There may be 40 years of belongings to sort through. It's not uncommon to have items going to your parents' new home, to an adult son in Maine, a daughter in Illinois, a niece in Texas, the church bazaar, the Salvation Army and the town dump...
...Your story on Bangladesh quoted a man from Dhaka's Kawran Bazaar who was unafraid to speak to reporters about extortionists who don't hesitate to kill if they are refused their protection money. He said, "Whether you publish our names or not, we are all dead men in this market." Indians can very well imagine the abysmal depths to which Bangladesh has sunk, because of the situation in the Indian state of Bihar, which is beset by similar troubles. The government's failure to control crime and violence is largely a result of a running feud between political parties...