Word: dervishness
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...father's tiny but unusually diverse record collection, consisting of just three, wholly different LPs?one from China, one from Latin America, and the third by American country balladeer Jim Reeves. Rahman's Hindu family was also devoted to a local Muslim pir, or saint, who was a Sufi dervish. Sufis share the same devotion to Allah as other strands of Islam, but none of the rigid stoicism. Instead, Sufis believe the way to God is through vehement, ecstatic self-expression. With such a teacher, Rahman says he can't remember a time when music, and mysticism, wasn...
...oddly charismatic. Bassist Tye Zamora and guitarist Terry Corso also provide some nice sight gags; Zamora’s overworked eyebrows and large-toothed triangular grin give him the look of a mischievous gnome, and Corso can go mighty quickly from looking Big and Dumb to spinning like a dervish around the little stage...
...newcomers. So Fifi hits the dance floor, her body uncoiling like a python's. Fifi dances to be watched and when she feels a pair of approving eyes on her, she swings her body ever so slowly, then gyrates faster and faster until she's whirling like an oversexed dervish. When she finally tapers to a halt, she looks up and hopes those eyes are still on her. If they are, she starts grinding her hips again, faster and faster until she's moving quicker than the boom-boom-boom of the electronic drums. If he's stopped looking...
...work, your measured pace and your trusty proofreaders to help perfect your masterpiece. Buy a ream of special paper and set aside a day, about a hundred dollars and all your remaining patience, whether you are printing it yourself or dropping off your baby at the all-night whirling dervish of copies. Prevent yourself from looking too close; of course you will find mistakes, but what's to say that an errant mouse click won't create more while...
...creativity. And the Rolling Stones were touring the U.S., culminating in a giant San Francisco festival already billed as "the Woodstock of the West." More than anything else, the film seemed poised to capture the energy and passion of a generation as seen through the roaring rock 'n roll dervish that was the '69 Stones...