Word: forbidden
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...comes to how far she will push the textile mills in new directions. She loves to tell the story of kid mohair, a kind of plush, teddy-bear-like pile fabric that was considered completely uncommercial before she used it in a menswear collection for spring 2002. "I was forbidden to use it," she says with a laugh, "and of course, it became a best seller...
...expatriate’s return to his Turkish homeland, a suicide epidemic among girls forbidden to wear head scarves, a hamlet cut off from the outside world by a forbidding blizzard, the sensuality of the momentary union of lovers’ hands held underneath a table: such are the interwoven motifs in the captivating imagistic web of “Snow,” the most recent novel of 2006 Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk.Defying genre constraints, “Snow” is, on one hand, a depiction of the contemporary political realities of a country that geographically straddles...
...Secrecy is something like a forbidden fruit. You can’t have it, and that makes you want it more.” Thus opens “Secrecy,” a documentary on government security classification made by two Harvard professors from disparate fields—one, a professor of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) and one a scientist and historian. The film’s unique appeal drew a crowd of over 60 members of the Harvard History of Science Colloquia to a special preview screening in the Science Center on Tuesday. SECRETS AND LIES...
Much of historic Beijing is being flattened in the name of redevelopment, but not, mercifully, its oldest hotel. Located a dumpling's throw from the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square, the extravagant, 90-year-old building formerly known as the Grand Hôtel de Pékin is now the Raffles Beijing, beijing.raffles.com. When Raffles Hotels & Resorts-owner of Singapore's famed Raffles Hotel-took over the management reins last year, it led a no-expense-spared effort to restore the sort of style the hotel enjoyed in the days when the likes of George Bernard Shaw...
Beijing has many charms for visitors: the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, weird and wonderful new architecture, a slew of museums celebrating China's millennia of culture and history. The list is long. But even the most academically inclined out-of-town visitor invariably ends up asking - somewhat sheepishly - whether I can give them directions to the "Fake Market." There are actually several of these, each a four- or five-story building jammed with stalls selling everything from shoes to toys, handbags, DVD players, watches, pearls, electronics, sports equipment. Almost everything in these establishments bears a famous name brand, often...