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Stare's fund raising strategy extends to his fairly extensive writing. He writes on occasion for magazines like Harper's Bazaar, he explains, for a very specific reason: "... you might wonder what the hell [I] have an article in Harper's Bazaar for, but it's a very influential magazine because women read it sitting under hair dryers, and many of these women are wives of important people and foundation executives...
Rothman says, however, that he is doing his part to reverse the deterioration of his once-proud neighborhood over the past several decades. He recently purchased the old Harvard Bazaar building on Mass Ave, and is currently converting it into housing for the elderly; he says he is "constantly renovating" his apartment units at his own expense...
...step over yoga parlors, t'ai chi ranches, Scientology centers, Subud temples, Sufi congregations, TM ashrams, Hare Krishna missions, Zen monasteries, astrology academies and tarot prophets. The flyways from East to West are dense with flocks of migratory swamis who come bearing wisdom and go lugging gold. A bazaar of the bizarre if ever there was one, and its most exotic merchandise, the pearl beyond price, is something known as brahmacaryam, samadhi, marafat or, in plain English, the mystical experience...
...success of The Great Railway Bazaar (1915), Theroux's engaging travelogue by train, should create a wider audience for this novel than the author has enjoyed in the past. He deserves it. At 35, Theroux is that rarest of beasts, a young writer who is getting better with each book. Paul Gray
Weird Display. Sex, however, is far from the only theme of the new theater of the bazaar. One Bendel window showed a woman gone mad, clawing at the walls. Another scene had several women staring at an apparent suicide surrounded by pill bottles. Occasionally everyday realism makes an appearance. One Candy Pratts kitchen scene for Bloomingdale's featured a real smashed raw egg on the floor, which had to be sponged up every night...