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...sentinels of the new morality have been curtailed somewhat, and Khomeini has personally forbidden arbitrary searches of private homes. Even so, these watchdogs have considerable power. On one recent evening on the promenade at Bandar Anzali, a popular weekend getaway for Tehranis, five guards, three of them veiled women, drove in a Nissan van through the strolling crowds. A woman was stopped and told to roll down her three-quarter-length sleeves. Another was admonished for allowing a lock of hair to escape from under her scarf. Sometimes female guards carry cotton and cleansing cream and insist on helping transgressors...
...notes for the family on a toy piano. Recently, after a rehearsal in New Jersey, Springsteen found a fan lounging on the Boss's '69 black Chevy Malibu convertible. The fan took a bluff, bold shot: "How about a ride home?" "Hop in," said the Boss, and they drove...
...eclectic schedule, he says, keeps him stimulated: "I've always been more interested in doing lots of things, really, rather than just one." Yet despite his success, Eshun was plagued by nightmares in which he was being chased by an assassin with his own face. The dreams finally drove him to seek out his past. He flew to Ghana, he says, "to find out what I was made of." Eshun chronicles his travels - visiting forts, braving the not-so-wild elephants of a national park - with humour and insight. The crux of the book is Eshun's discovery about...
Last summer Yu chartered a bus and drove peasants from a proposed dam area along the upper Salween to visit a 10-year-old dam a few hours away. The government had celebrated the Manwan Dam as a model of development for its cheap electricity and successful relocation of 3,500 people. The visitors saw something different: peasant women picking through the hydropower station's garbage dump for plastic bottles to recycle for pennies. Sobbing, the women explained that they had not found jobs after losing their land. The scene was captured in an underground documentary that environmentalists have passed...
...recalls his father shut in his Paris studio for weeks after the accident, inconsolable. Even now, 31 years on, Botero can hardly bear to discuss his loss. Botero says the tragedy destroyed his relationship with Pedro's mother - he is now married to the Greek sculptor Sophia Vari - and drove him into a depression, alleviated only by his incessant painting, including several portraits of Pedro. "Several times in my life I have reconstructed my life through painting," Botero says. "That is why painting is so sacred to me. It saves me in my worst moments." And that...