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...have lived a life involving deepening Islamic practice and community. They had frequent visitors, sometimes as many as 20 at a time, witnesses told the New York Times. The group left their shoes at the door and could frequently be heard reciting from the Koran. They wore traditional Islamic garb, at least some of the time. The men often sat in circles on the floor praying, a neighbor reported. When they caught her watching, they installed blinds. They spoke good German. One neighbor complained about loud Arabic music. Despite Nehm's claims, the German sojourn has the feel...
...world to receive him again. 1995 saw the biggest publicity campaign ever mounted, Jackson’s deep-seated insecurities once again driving him to create an over-the-top lavish spectacle. A statue of Jackson was floated down the Thames, while the artist himself donned military garb and led troopers in advertisements to promote HIStory: Past Present & Future—Book 1, a two-CD set of his greatest hits and new material. The first single, “Scream”, marked the first-ever collaboration between Jackson and his younger sister Janet. The music video, still unsurpassed...
...back to robes and swords as Michael Boyd completes the cycle with Henry VIs and Richard III. While it is a jolt to finish, say, Richard II with his successor Henry IV in a business suit and then to start the next play with Henry suddenly in medieval garb, the different approaches demonstrate the works' universality...
...Japan was a wartime enemy of the U.S., American movies displayed the Japanese as an alien people, with a culture as remote and, in the old phrase, inscrutable as Mars. Hayakawa was the movies' first ambassador from this remote empire. In 1915 he played an Eastern dude in Western garb in Cecil B. DeMille's The Cheat. All slim smiles and secret sneers, he seduces gullible Fannie Ward with a private loan; later he drops his suavity, attacking and then, gosh, branding...
...first chorus role on Broadway - age 17 - alongside Bert Lahr. I heard something about her performing a trick in which she could drive a golf ball 250 yards using my face as a tee before I made my excuses and deserted her for Kristin, who was in full safari garb, complete with a javelin...