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...summer for a reported $500,000. Or the Indian-born billionaire Lakshmi Mittal, who reportedly spent $60 million on his daughter's wedding in June. At Harry Winston, Brodie says the current trend is for customers to "trade up" their engagement rings, swapping $45,000 2-carat brilliant-cut diamond rings for $165,000 5-carat emerald-cut diamonds...
...Trade Center in 10 monumental (14 1/2in. by 19 1/2in.), full-color episodes. The attacks left Spiegelman in a traumatized, neurasthenic state. (MISSING, proclaims a poster, A. SPIEGELMAN'S BRAIN LAST SEEN IN LOWER MANHATTAN, MID-SEPTEMBER 2001.) For the comic literate, No Towers is a riot of intermittently brilliant formal play. Panels crowd and overlap and invade each other, and Spiegelman mimics a dozen visual styles. A man plummeting from the World Trade Center echoes Winsor McCay's endlessly tumbling Little Nemo...
...Trade Center in 10 monumental (14 1/2in. by 19 1/2in.), full-color episodes. The attacks left Spiegelman in a traumatized, neurasthenic state. (MISSING, proclaims a poster, A. SPIEGELMAN'S BRAIN LAST SEEN IN LOWER MANHATTAN, MID-SEPTEMBER 2001.) For the comic literate, No Towers is a riot of intermittently brilliant formal play. Panels crowd and overlap and invade each other, and Spiegelman mimics a dozen visual styles. A man plummeting from the World Trade Center echoes Winsor McCay's endlessly tumbling Little Nemo...
...1990s, Cipel had worked as a press officer at the Israeli consulate in New York City. Gideon Mark, who was Cipel's boss there, says Cipel handled both national and New Yorkarea news outlets, which would have given him some familiarity with New Jersey. "He was talented but not brilliant," says Colette Avital, the consul general at the time. Another person who worked with Cipel back then says he "was the kind of guy who was politically ambitious ... He wanted to rub shoulders" with dignitaries...
...Music is important," says local veteran musician Amadou Bagayoko. "Every celebration is an opportunity to party." And what opportunities. La Refuge is just one gem in Bamako's brilliant music scene, which easily rivals that of Dakar, its more famous neighbor. If you're Bamako-bound, you'll find the beat here...