Word: bearding
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...store in Tokyo (the last such obligation he has to the company for a while, he is quick to point out), he is surprised at just how overwhelming the fashion frenzy has become. The crease in his brow, the nervous laugh, the fidgeting: Murakami is uncomfortable. Stroking his wispy beard as a Louis Vuitton minder hovers nearby, he's a touch concerned that too many people, especially in the West, especially those who may not have heard of him before, now suddenly think of him as some sort of handbag designer. "I need to rebuild the wall between the commercial...
...gets off a train in a small town in provincial France. He has a bad complexion and an aggressive beard and wears a tough-guy leather jacket. He is Milan (Johnny Hallyday, the durable French rock star), and he is a thief, in town to meet his gang and rob a bank...
...Saad, a burly Kashmiri in his mid-30s with a closely cropped beard, is one of them. Eyes ablaze, Saad?who prefers not to disclose his full name for security reasons?continues to talk of unending war in Kashmir. These days, however, he's not so sure of high-level support within Pakistan. For an interview at his home in Islamabad, he insists we drive a mazelike route because, he claims, Pakistani intelligence agents, who were once his friends and mentors, are now keeping him under surveillance. Saad says he commands 70 fighters?a fraction...
...finds, is a "perfect Englishman" of Pakistani origin, a chess player and champion arm wrestler, a brilliant student at the London School of Economics who embraced radical Islam during a stint in Bosnia in the early 1990s. Lévy knows from court testimony that Sheikh shaved his beard and bought Gucci shoes, a Breitling watch and Ray-Ban sunglasses to disguise himself before meeting Pearl. But Lévy can only imagine his thoughts about Pearl's face: "rather open for a Jew; rather clever for an American; bizarrely curious...
STOP! OR MY BEARD WILL SHOOT...