Word: bazaar
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...Buff and Max, the antlered commentators at the Country Bear Jamboree, speak in the grave basso profundos of Kurosawa samurai. Alice in Wonderland has Oriental features. Frontierland has been turned into Westernland ("The Japanese don't like frontiers," explains a park official), and Main Street has become the World Bazaar...
...designed his first dress when he was a little old man of five, and his mother wore it to a St. Petersburg ball. Mata Hari was a client, as were the Ziegfeld Follies, MGM, various opera companies and magazines as disparate as Harper's Bazaar and Playboy. Now a little old man of 95, Erte still astonishes, as is vividly demonstrated by the delicious retrospective Erte at Ninety-Five: The Complete New Graphics (Dutton; 192 pages; $75). His work is generally labeled art deco, but his wit, imagination and irrepressible flamboyance suggest a more fitting appellation: art Erte...
After the memorial service, there is a picnic and church bazaar. While women swap dessert recipes and sewing hints, men exchange investment tips and talk soccer. Everybody gossips. Weightier topics are also touched on: AIDS, the Persian Gulf war, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart's recent Brazilian tour. What distinguishes the occasion is its civility. Even the singing of hymns at the service seems contained. Perhaps the restraint stems partly from the absence of hard liquor and beer. "As practicing Protestants, many of us think alcohol is unholy and unhealthy," says John Homer Steagall, 68, a retired Singer sewing-machine general manager...
LIKE AN unwary tourist in a Middle Eastern bazaar, the Reagan Administration wandered into the Persian Gulf unsure of what it wants and how much it needs...
FRIGHTENING because summits ultimately allow presidents and general secretaries of the Soviet Union to disrobe themselves of their foreign policy advisers. They begin to compromise and agree on matters they have very little experience or knowledge of, much like an unwary tourist in an Arab bazaar. This is particularly ominous for the United States, where the last four presidents have been a crook, a football player, a peanut farmer, and an actor. Thanks to television's role in American electoral politics, we can't expect our presidents to be experts on foreign affairs--but they're guaranteed to be both...