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...bucks. But the city is really dominated by the Shwedagon Pagoda, a huge golden dome three kilometers above the city, surrounded on eight sides by smaller pagodas in resplendent red and silver. Both the men and women on the streets wear the traditional longgyi, a tube-shaped piece of cloth knotted at the waist and falling to the ankles. Even children, but especially old women, smoke sold everywhere on the sidewalks...
...intellectual and artist whose somewhat rarefied career defies precise terminology. Frequently described as a "Renaissance man," he is a designer of museum displays and interiors and the author of nine books, including a computer handbook and a limited edition of poetry written on Plexiglas, aluminum and black cloth...
...market. Along with more traditional items, Yolanda offers a slinky jersey number with a peekaboo keyhole shape cut from below breast to just below the navel. For her own daughter's wedding last January, Yolanda ran up a gown of white leather, python skin, fox, mink, Swakara and gold cloth with a complementing jacket of Russian golden sable. Such an outfit might seem a little . . . well, declamatory, but it was certainly of a piece with the proceedings, whose wintry "theme" was Doctor Zhivago. The bride and bridegroom greeted reception guests from a bejeweled white velvet sleigh custom-made...
...must take care not to be swamped in the hugeness of the spacial void. At the same time, the stage crew is learning to time the raising and lowering of the various set components, including three enormous palm trees. Special care is given to the scrim, or see-through cloth; it belongs to the American Repertory Theatre and is said to be worth thousands of dollars. No one is anxious to see that sum appear on their term bill...
...retinue has been known to include female bodygards toting submachine guns. He lives in a small boxcar of a house, no different / from the spartan homes of the other military men at the well-fortified Bab el- Azizia barracks. He keeps a tent outside, and it is underneath its cloth top that he appears to feel truly at home. He has a piece of bread and a glass of camel's milk for breakfast, a regimen he has kept since he was a boy. He says he likes Western classical music, especially Beethoven, and that his favorite book is Uncle...