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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dueling bands-strings from Transylvania and brass from Moldavia-drive the whole spectacle toward climax. Battuta offers feasts and romance, weddings and funerals, imbuing them with the absurdity and surrealism of dreams. As the furious crescendo finally tapers and night falls, a violin draws a melancholic tune while the caravan beds down, their horses shifting in the darkness. After the show you won't want to leave, and may sit down and order a feast of your own in the velvet-curtained dining pavilion. Or you may linger around the bonfire outside the theater sipping a mint tea or spiced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animal Magnetism | 12/16/2006 | See Source »

...Battuta offers feasts and romance, weddings and funerals, imbuing them with the absurdity and surrealism of dreams. As the furious crescendo finally tapers and night falls, a violin draws a melancholic tune while the caravan beds down, their horses shifting in the darkness. After the show you won't want to leave, and may sit down and order a feast of your own in the velvet-curtained dining pavilion. Or you may linger around the bonfire outside the theater sipping a mint tea or spiced wine, trying to prolong your dreamlike state until, grudgingly, you catch the last metro back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animal Magnetism | 12/12/2006 | See Source »

...would be most suited for shooting a Jew, a gun salesman answers with similar assuredness, and points him towards an appropriate weapon. Another American urges Cohen to shave his mustache so that he looks less like “terrorist.” Upon hitching a ride from a caravan full of frat brothers, amid the generic male jostling, one youth takes the chance to gripe to Borat about how minorities are always “on top” in the United States. The shouts of support when he yells to a crowded stadium that he supports President Bush?...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review: Borat | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

...gravel road off the highway. All are wearing shorts, some carry rods and reels. Hundreds of time-rich wanderers are fishing or collecting shells on Eighty Mile Beach in the midday sun, while their well-traveled 4WDs and homes on wheels rest in the caravan park behind the dunes. These gray nomads jest that they are part of the SKI club: Spending the Kids' Inheritance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New (Old)Nomads | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...Harry Reid today called on President Bush to push those conservative House Republicans to begin a House-Senate conference immediately. But with his ratings low, and House Republicans digging in deeper, Bush may be little more than a spectator when it comes to this summer's immigration caravan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing the Spoiler on Immigration | 6/20/2006 | See Source »

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