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...Hassan declares, and leaps to her feet. The teacher's lounge, a room of brightly dressed women, is doused in black as students and teachers don dark floor-length robes and headscarves that show only their eyes. Stout bamboo staves appear out of nowhere. A Sten gun flashes from beneath Hassan's robe...
...sort of tight dresses you probably wouldn't have found in Frida Kahlo's wardrobe. Yet sitting in the Gallery Naruyama in central Tokyo, one's eye nevertheless strays from Matsui to her 2004 painting Keeping Up the Pureness, in which a ghostly pale woman, black hair pooling beneath her head, lies in a misty field of lilies, poppies and moss. Painstakingly drawn on gold silk, Pureness could be a perfect example of nihonga, traditional Japanese ink painting-save for the coroner's cut that unseams Matsui's subject from chest to chaps, leaving heart, lungs and organs exposed...
...festival about original, modern work." Keeping in the spirit of civic regeneration, the festival's line-up is a varied, multi-sensory experience. It includes ballet from Cuba's Carlos Acosta, gigs from Smokey Robinson and Kanye West, a concert adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel The Ground Beneath her Feet and a chance to tuck into the unique culinary creations of self-styled "chemistry" chef Heston Blumenthal...
...Apple Daily newspaper), it would have been easy enough to confuse the demonstration with anything from a labor rights march to a municipal zoning dispute. Hundreds of Filipino and Indonesian domestic workers protested against abusive recruitment agencies and called for an increase in the minimum wage. In Victoria Park, beneath a dour-faced statue of the British monarch, Falun Gong demonstrators jostled for space with activists urging an end to political pressure on RTHK, Hong Kong's public broadcaster. As the crowd moved steadily through the streets of Causeway Bay, a popular shopping district, union representatives brushed shoulders with nationalists...
...have felt the earth moving beneath your feet. Yet, some officials attending the four-way summit of Israeli and Arab leaders at the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh this week sensed a paradigm shift in the making. The way toward Israeli-Palestinian peace has been blocked for years, by Palestinian violence, Israeli unilateralism and American disengagement. But the peacemakers are saying they have been shaken out of their slumber by a recent series of events - for the moment at least...