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...cities are dominated by the roar of bulldozers and the rattle of jackhammers. The hard hat of the construction worker rivals the checkered ghutra as the national headdress. In the bustling commercial and financial port city of Jidda, on the Red Sea, bulldozers tear into the graceful old houses of the Ottoman era with their latticework balconies and harem windows. In the capital city of Riyadh, rows of mud houses topped with crenelated roofs are smashed to dust to make way for superhighways or high-rise buildings of chrome, glass and soaring reinforced concrete. Passenger jets land and depart from...
...album of Rolling Stone photographer Annie Leibovitz's finest work provides the kind of pictorial history of rock that only this magazine could. From the first full-page shot of a pensive John Lennon gazing into Leibovitz's lens to a melancholy Keith Richard swathed in a makeshift black headdress, Leibovitz's collection captures virtually every major rock star of the last ten years in some special pose, along with non-rock celebrities ranging from Truman Capote to Jimmy Carter...
Professor Higgins has tossed out his tweed hat for a headdress. The star of My Fair Lady is a very different kind of gent in his latest film, Shalimar. This time Rex Harrison plays a chap called Sir John, "the world's greatest jewel thief," who lives on an island in the Indian Ocean with his own private army. "The character I play is different from the usual," says Rex. "Sir John is slightly tougher and demented and more sadistic." He is also crafty. To scare off a band of would-be murderers, he dons...
Arafat, who will probably head whatever Palestinian state may eventually emerge, still wears the kaffiyeh headdress and battle fatigues that are his trademark. But his bodyguards, who once sported beards and Kalashnikov assault rifles, are clean-shaven now and resemble Carter's Secret Service, down to the radio earpieces through which they receive orders when Arafat travels. The P.L.O. has even sent a team of potential ambassadors to East Germany to be drilled in diplomacy. But amid the diplomatic moderation, the Palestinians intend to keep pressure on Israel. The P.L.O. continues to train young fighters; Arafat at a recent...
Actress Andrea Marcovicci had dreamed of wearing a few of the baubles found in King Tut's tomb, but settled for a necklace once owned by Sarah Bernhardt. She will wear the jewels and an elaborate headdress in her role as Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile, in the Broadway-bound play of the same name. Marcovicci-best known as Woody Allen's girl friend in The Front-admires the strong-willed wife of King Akhenaten. "I like to play women who want something for themselves and will fight for it," says Andrea. To pre pare for her role...