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...groove of each song, demonstrating the type of communication you’d expect from a polished jazz combo. As a result, rhythm becomes a dramatic device, one that clearly delineates the border between honest and sarcastic lyrics. Nowhere is this more true than on “Rough Gem.” The first two verses employ the metaphor of diamond mining to illustrate the the dogged pursuit of a dream. Aptly named singer Diamond assumes the voice of that fantasy, suggesting that “you can scoop out my brain, shape it into an ear and then...
...Senior Javier Castellanos twirled another gem for the Crimson, earning his third Ivy League victory in as many weeks with a complete-game six-hitter in the Sunday opener...
...quality beads are just one Gem Palace specialty, and Kasliwal grabs several strands of garnets to demonstrate the differences. "This one is artisanal production, each bead carefully drilled, each one faceted by hand. The Tiffanys of the industry will buy this one, and the average worker could produce 20 or 30 beads a day," he says. A second strand looks duller and less uniform. "These have been tumbled in a machine and then finished. A worker can produce 800 of these a day." The artisanal strand wholesales for $70 to $80; the industrial one costs...
...next afternoon De Taillac directs a driver to the Nawab Ka Choraya neighborhood, jammed with gem shops and throngs of small-time brokers showing their packets in the street. "Did you notice I took off my jewelry?" she says, smiling. "They copy." How to describe the chaos?with monkeys swinging in and out of dilapidated, baroque faades, sugarcane presses spewing smoke, and dozens of men (there are very few women in sight) pursuing De Taillac. "Hallooo, halloo. You buy emeralds. You want Indian rubies?" they cry, tugging at her clothes, and when she stops to look over a handful...
HARI RAM SON, MOHAND CHAND & SONS, GOVIND GEMS, NP JAIN, RM BUMB read the signs on the shop stalls. Pitliya Jewellers has a table with a plastic washbasin filled with pearls. Jain families?members of an ascetic religious group that observes strict dietary rules?run the businesses; Muslims are the expert craftsmen. Later I notice a poster of Mecca in a workshop where four men facet lemon quartz in a weird green glow. Gauri Shankar Dangayach, production manager of one of Gem Palace's cutting units, leads De Taillac down several side streets with open gutters and into...