Word: caning
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...most charming of states, Louisiana, stands one of the most inviting bed-and-breakfasts, the Madewood Plantation House on the Bayou Lafourche in Napoleonville, just 75 miles from New Orleans. The second largest plantation house in the state, Madewood was built by a sugar-cane planter, Colonel Thomas Pugh, 15 years before the Civil War began. The house is now owned by Keith Marshall, whose parents so expertly rebuilt and restored Madewood 26 years ago that it has come to represent the quintessential plantation home in several movies, including A Woman Called Moses...
...Cane fields still surround the plantation, and Madewood guests might easily imagine that they are members of an old-time Southern house party. All eight bedrooms boast fine canopied beds and spacious bathrooms. Guests may also stay in the three-bedroom Charlet House. At night everyone gathers around a huge dining table for a candlelight repast of gumbo or other Louisiana dishes. They may then move on to the formal parlor for coffee or gather on the veranda for a chat...
...fluidly urban. In the video (You Drive Me) Crazy, Henson has a captivating phrase in which Spears rotates on a chair, her legs splayed, projecting both sensuality and repose. Fatima's choreography for Aaliyah's Try Again ends with the R.-and-B. diva dancing with a black cane, a visual reference to the step shows held by black fraternities. As with a woman in her boyfriend's dress shirt, there's something sexy about...
...across most of Africa, but slightly better in Nigeria, where a fledgling democracy is 15 months old. In the northern part of a country twice the size of California, local Muslim officials, having succeeded in driving local Christians away, are adopting stern Islamic Shariah law to segregate schools, cane drinkers and cut off the hands of thieves...
Lovers walk together in silence. Most everyone is silent. Two huge-bellied men walk by in shorts and running shoes. An older woman with a modern metal cane walks by; then four tall, deacon-looking men in dark suits and ties. Many people are alone, like me. A father pushes his infant daughter past me in a stroller. She looks up and puts a finger to her lip to signify that one should be quiet. I give her back the signal. We smile in a shared secret...