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...knew about Alanoud, 25, before we met this morning was that she's the oldest daughter of a prominent Saudi businessman and that her mother, who is half Lebanese, attends the haute couture shows in Paris fully veiled. Yesterday in the malls, as I watched women in floor-length black robes called abayas and head scarves called sheilahs, as well as those wearing burqas covering everything but their eyes, I wondered what Alanoud would be like and whether it would be difficult to relate to someone from a culture so different from mine. That was before a dazzling girl...
...behind a boudoir-pink wall to a pretty blond in a matching pink uniform. She's wrapping a stack of saucy lingerie items for two women who are entirely veiled, including burqas. When they leave, Lisa Hastings, the manager of Agent Provocateur, explains that they are a mother and daughter shopping for the daughter's wedding lingerie, adding that she sells plenty of "playful" underwear to women wearing abayas. The shop's best-selling item? "The jeweled whip," Hastings says. "We can hardly keep them in stock...
...could defuse racism with a more positive attitude and are too quick to "play the race card" and "come from a place of self-pity"; he's stubbornly determined to show that, if he gives off a positive vibe, he won't encounter racism. Carmen is the well-meaning daughter of parents who were active in the civil rights movement, but she has had little personal contact with blacks. She refers to one of her daughter's black friends as a "magnificent black creature," and, in a role-play led by the dialogue coach, addresses Renee, "Yo, bitch." ("Bitch...
...Matt Alvarez (both of Barbershop), was to survey the color lines in a country that has largely shed overt racism. For six weeks a black family from Atlanta (Brian and Renee Sparks and their son Nick) and a white family from Santa Monica, Calif. (Carmen Wurgel, Bruno Marcotulli and daughter Rose), went out into society as members of the opposite race and spent their downtime, sans makeup, sharing a house...
...cast was not South Asian, according to Saikat Chakrabarti ’07, a director of Ghungroo. “Usually you see a regional bias [in the selection of dances], and [Ghungroo] didn’t have that,” said audience member Nishkam Agarwal, whose daughter performed in the event. And audience member Caroline Caswell characterized the show as “tremendously joyful.” “[There was] a great sense of community within, and [a] coming together to share common experiences,” she said. Ghungroo had its largest cast ever...