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...hard to believe that women who are hidden under a burqa retain a sense of style, but they do. This year's trendy color for burqas is a pale sky blue. A few years back it was a coppery brown. The fashion center for burqas -the Paris, if you will, of Afghanistan - is Herat. Afghan women rave about the delicacy of its embroidery, the exquisite pleating which gives the burqa a shimmering, watery feel but which takes hours to iron...
...this Black Friday, and it's got nothing to do with the stock market. The day after Thanksgiving is traditionally the biggest shopping day of the year - and the start of a holiday gift-buying season that merchants count on to turn the red in their books to the color of profit...
...loose: this year Leatherman premieres a line of user-friendly multitools for the rest of us. The xe6 is the most comprehensive entry; highlights include scissors, four screwdrivers, two knife blades, wire cutters, a saw, a diamond-coated file and a molded purple grip. (O.K., Leatherman calls the color thunder.) www.leatherman.com...
Each shelf has its own color combination and distinct combination and distinct time period. Atherton’s bookshelf, for instance, is filled with the red, brown and yellow covers of 17th and 18th century American literature. Intricate gold and silver etchings decorate the leather binding...
...cover image of Memorial Hall with a thick, sweet-smelling paper and a special font (“Golden Cockerel,” for the curious) that offers, according to a note at the end of the volume, a “face of notable heft, with a dense color on the page and sharp serifs reminiscent of the carver’s chisel.” The intended effect, obviously, is one of words hewn in granite, with Rudenstine as a 21st century Moses, handing down a new set of commandments—although perhaps we should call them...