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Victoria Y. Wei '93: "When my roommate and I were shopping houses, we got lost in the tunnels of Adams House, and then we heard this `You are my sunshine, my only sunshine...'" The voice belonged to Lauderdale, and he was wearing "this little fez...
...gone there in search of the picturesque, the exotic, the ready-made subject: mosques and Riffian horsemen, camels and harem slaves. By 1880 Orientalism had become a large fashion among salon painters and their clients. French artists brought their minutely realist style and their mildly prurient interests to Fez and Marrakech, and went back to Paris with both intact. To be influenced as a painter by Islamic art -- architecture, rugs, tiles, cloth, miniatures -- was inconceivable, like "going native." The imperious gaze went only one way; its view of Morocco was colonialism in paint...
...children's book editors. "Everybody else called them odd," he recalls. "I didn't." The editors liked the oddness. In 1979 Van Allsburg made his debut with The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, in which a boy and a dog stumble onto the house of a magician who wears a fez and blows perfect smoke rings. Typically, the story ends in ambiguity: the reader never knows for sure whether the magician turns Fritz, the signature bull terrier that has appeared in all of Van Allsburg's subsequent books, into a duck...
Flying back to Pretoria from talks in Cairo, South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha was in high good humor. Jauntily donning a red fez, Botha told reporters that with the aid of Chester Crocker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, negotiators from South Africa, Angola and Cuba had made progress on future discussions concerning the withdrawal of Cuban and South African troops from Angola. But the euphoria dissolved the following day, when new fighting broke out. Pretoria said that twelve of its soldiers and 300 Angolans and Cubans were killed when a government force attacked a South...
Throughout, preparations for the Hassan-Peres meeting were kept secret. Last Monday afternoon Peres left Israel in an unmarked Israeli air force Boeing 707, accompanied only by a handful of aides, an Israeli television crew and two reporters. After landing in Fez, Peres was driven up winding mountain roads to the official guest house, close to the King's granite palace retreat 125 miles from Rabat and 4,400 ft. high in the Middle Atlas range. The Israeli party was finishing dinner when the King drove over in his own car and welcomed his guests. The two leaders greeted each...