Word: cameleers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...women who move silently looking almost like silhouettes." She decided her task would be "to interpret the life of Indians, particularly the poor Indians pictorially; to paint those images of infinite submission and patience." This she did like no one before her, filling canvases with farm workers, storytellers, nurses, camel drivers and minstrels. Searching for a way to depict rural Indians that would avoid sentimentality, she hit upon a style?abstracted, rhythmic, vividly colorful?as inspired by European modernism as by India's ancient sculpture...
...years old, but Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, a feudal lord in Pakistan's rugged Baluchistan province, wants to fight to the death. A Kalashnikov rifle strapped to his back, Bugti travels by camel through desert ravines and hobbles up cliffs to hidden caves where he plots ways for his Baluch tribesmen to ambush the Pakistani army. "It's better to die?as the Americans say?with your spurs on," says Bugti. "Instead of a slow death in bed, I'd rather death come to me while I'm fighting for a purpose." That purpose is to make life as difficult...
...Number of boys repatriated last week from the United Arab Emirates?to which they had been smuggled as camel-racing jockeys?under a law requiring jockeys to be at least 18 years old 4 Age of the youngest jockeys...
...Number of boys repatriated last week from the United Arab Emirates--to which they had been smuggled as camel-racing jockeys--under a law requiring jockeys to be at least 18 years...
Pity poor Joe Camel. With him out at the retirement pastures and the Marlboro man likewise roaming the wild blue yonder, who’s left to seduce pretty young things...