Word: goatskins
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...through a low doorway into his small house, Fida Ag Mohammed sits at a table and pats a pile of books in front of him. Even in the dim light it's clear that these are no ordinary volumes. The books are covered with intricately hand-tooled sheep- or goatskin; inside, hundreds of pages of yellowed paper are filled with Arabic calligraphy - the painstaking penmanship of Mohammed's forebears centuries ago. "One of my ancestors from the 12th century began our family library," Mohammed says. "There are hundreds of collections like this...
...distinctive images, Nilsson appears to have taken this rule to heart, and too dramatically at that. Her images are certainly distinctive—from “The Procures,” “a mountain sitting in a fair sky, girls / of gentle birth sheathed in goatskin and tulle.” The latter image is one of several in this collection that allude to our distant, primeval past. Yet these distinctive images are lost by dilution, by the worst kind of overkill. Take this stanza from “Underground Beauty”: “Inside...
...Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, designed by Frank Gehry 2 West Elm faceted table lamp with white resin base and cotton shade ($149; westelm.com 3 Louis Vuitton Into the Curl cuff ($1,180; louisvuitton.com 4 Bottega Veneta dark purple pleated goatskin shopper ($2,980; bottegaveneta.com 5 Roger Vivier Navette black alligator faceted evening clutch ($5,200; Roger Vivier NY, 212-861-5371) 6 Burberry metal necklace with copper overlay ($1,995; burberry.com 7 Frank Gehry for Tiffany & Co. rock vase in bone china ($175; 800-526-0649) 8 Fredrikson Stallard King Bonk fiberglass armchair (price on request; David...
...looking like an American.'' (He's actually Canadian.) Guards are also important: several gunmen protecting Andrew fired back when his truck was ambushed in the Bakhara market earlier this year, enabling him to make a quick getaway. Andrew rides around Mogadishu in an old Toyota Land Cruiser with goatskin seat covers, Armed Forces Radio booming from the speakers, but that doesn't provide much relaxation. ''It took me months to figure out whether Somalis traditionally drive on the right or the left,'' he says. (It's the right.) ''With no traffic cops, anything goes.'' Swimming at the tempting beaches...
...them home and refrigerated them. And when they had emptied the bottles, they disposed of them in the trash. How about the water I drank overseas? It had been carried maybe a mile in a clay jug on someone's head or brought up from the canal in a goatskin over someone's shoulder. I think tap water is great. Selling water is surely the biggest scam of the century, and Americans have fallen for it. Marjorie Dye, Pasadena, Calif...