Word: chador
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most popular pastimes is chewing kat, small leaves from a mildly narcotic and addictive plant. Strict laws forbid the sale except on two-day weekends of the so-called Yemeni vodka, which has a disastrous effect on productivity. Women are free from most Islamic restrictions, able to choose the chador or the dress. In fact, the country adheres little to either Muslim or Marxist strictures. Liquor is sold, and the Communist Party numbers only 20,000 members...
Despite the war, many Iranians enjoy themselves. In summer thousands flock to the Caspian Sea, and in winter the ski resorts remain popular. Both beaches and slopes have separate zones for men and women, and there are always the Revolutionary Guards and their chador-clad female counterparts on hand to enforce proper Islamic behavior and maintain the segregation of the sexes. The cinemas, which are often jammed, feature both postrevolutionary Iranian fare and heavily censored foreign films. One recent hit was Barabbas, a 1962 picture starring Anthony Quinn. Another was the Iranian film The Call of the Forest, which dealt...
...draw as many as half a million faithful. There is no hint of war, however, in Tehran's northern district. This is where bazaaris, members of Iran's business class, and other people of influence reside, in walled villas along placid, tree- lined streets. Women wear the regulation chador during the day but then reappear in the evening in smart outfits from Paris to drink Scotch and reminisce about visits to Europe. "We have two personalities," explains one woman. But when the casual talk subsides, their businessmen-husbands complain about endless problems. Because hard currency is difficult to obtain, they...
...sorry that she has cleaned up her act. Perhaps that comes with age, even to liberated women. But I hope that still more advanced age will give Greer some compassion for the elderly and will erase her romantic notions of the Third World. A woman who wears a chador or has undergone a clitoridectomy is no more liberated than her Western sister who acts in porn films or sells toothpaste on television...
...central axiom is that if one burrows deep enough beneath the Mao jacket, the shapka or the chador, one discovers that people everywhere are essentially the same. American Anthropologist Samantha Smith was invited to Moscow by Yuri Andropov for firsthand confirmation of just that proposition (a rare Soviet concession to the principle of on-site inspection). After a well-photographed sojourn during which she took in a children's festival at a Young Pioneer camp (but was spared the paramilitary training), she got the message: "They're just . . . almost . . . just like us," she announced at her last Moscow...