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...honor of Chinese New Year. Finally, on April 13 Thailand celebrates the first day of the traditional Thai calendar with Songkran, a three-day festival marked by parades, feasts and a water-throwing free-for-all in which people roam the streets with squirt guns, bowls of water and garden hoses, drenching passersby--and themselves--in the process. The water represents purification, but it also brings the revelers welcome relief: April is the hottest month of the year in Thailand...
...script is riddled with clunky lines—“When the Santa Anas blow all bets are off. Anything can happen.” And yes, there’s a song from the Garden State soundtrack. Although “The Holiday” lacks the sentimental humor of the “Father of the Bride” movies (not to mention no gay Martin Short) and offers a less timely subject matter than that of “Something’s Gotta Give” (not to mention no nude Diane Keaton) it still...
...Tournon, which opened last April, says Eric de Montgolfier, a managing partner at Edmond de Rothschild. The store, which Bonpoint executives claim is the largest luxury children's shop in the world, occupies the ground floor of a 17th century htel particulier and winds around a large neat garden to a newer wing. Shoppers and their parents wander through parlors with fireplaces, moldings and parquet de Versailles, and the 300-piece collection is deployed throughout. Boys' clothing is in the back, shoes are up the stairs, and there's a VIP room for celebrity clients. Children head straight...
...illustrator and designs theater dcors.) "Our mother didn't have a lot of money, but the word we heard most often was regardez. Look at all the beautiful buildings in Paris. Look at the paintings, the furniture," Marie-France will tell you if you push the garden gate to the home she and Bernard purchased with the proceeds from the sale of the company, appropriately two doors down from a school. "You were told to train your eye, and always there was a disassociation of beauty and taste from the idea of money. That is the secret...
...newly flush Eastern Europeans and large groups of Buddhists from Japan and Korea - come to gawp at Angkor Wat. Looming, enduring and vast, it is just one of a host of exquisite temples in the area. But by the end of the day, both culture vultures and common-or-garden tourists are more than ready for less cerebral diversion. And in Siem Reap these days, there are plenty of other delights to sample. By day, the area around the old market, or Phsar Cha, just north of the river, offers a roaring trade in souvenirs, silks and pottery. Its byways...