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Cecil Sharp House in London's leafy Regent's Park is nobody's idea of a fashionable venue. The Spartan headquarters of the English Folk Dance and Song Society is home to such curiosities as tabor-drum workshops and Morris-dancing classes...
...down the wrong tree to setting fire to the lawn mower - could be instantly brushed aside." So Shah learned to deal with jinns the Moroccan way, sprinkling drops of his blood in the toilet, burying chunks of meat in the garden and, when the usual remedies failed, hiring 24 drum-banging exorcists, led by a hash-smoking pimp in a gold turban, for a two-day expulsion ritual. Unhappily, it involved slaughtering Ariane's pet goat and sprinkling its blood in every room. The Caliph's House ends with most obstacles surmounted - the jinns are gone, the books are allowed...
Cecil Sharp house in London's leafy Regent's Park is nobody's idea of a fashionable venue. The spartan headquarters of the English Folk Dance and Song Society is home to such curiosities as tabor-drum workshops and Morris-dancing classes. Not a place, then, where one would expect to encounter Anna Wintour, the editor of American Vogue, especially not at the height of London Fashion Week. Yet Wintour, along with New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art's top brass, had an assignation there with the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. So entertaining was the performance that...
...particularly raucous group of men’s volleyball fans—equipped with a bongo drum, face paint, and a host of articulate insults for the opponent—demonstrated at a recent home game, sometimes you must make your own magic...
Bakshi said the videocassettes he recorded of Zimbabwean national television, which he said were released by the government to drum up support for itself, were then returned...