Word: jade
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Some stones are unabashedly faux, nothing more than plastic made to look like garnet or jade. But this season's top rock is genuine turquoise, valued for its warmth and earthy appeal. "It's all about the ethnic, folkloric point of view. And what says that more than turquoise?" asks Ken Downing, fashion spokesman for Neiman Marcus. "It was such a great look in the '70s, it had to come around again." And again. Word is that turquoise and other rocks will dominate the fall collections, though renewed interest in episodes of The Flintstones seems remote...
...first glimpse of her roots had come two days earlier. Our passenger plane from Thailand dropped through a thick layer of cloud to reveal steep, wrinkled peaks flanking a jade patchwork of paddies. As we whizzed over the treetops to land outside the main town of Jinghong?or in Dai Lue, Chiang Rung, "the city of the dawn"?what looked like dozens of Pizza Huts peeped from the verdure. This was the unique architecture of the Dai?their signature, high-canted roofs perched atop thick teak pillars...
...Davey von Bohlen, lead singer of the Promise Ring. Emo fans go ballistic when they think a band is selling out. The Promise Ring released a lovely mature rock album, Wood/Water, last month, but emo fans howled because the band sounded overproduced and it had abandoned tiny, emo-friendly Jade Tree for slightly less tiny Epitaph. "I don't care who pays for your college. Why should you care who pays for our records?" asks guitarist Jason Gnewikow...
...images adapted from anonymous news photos, rioters are attacked by police dogs. Women die in car wrecks or from poisoned tuna fish. The broken body of a suicide lies supine like Christ taken down from the cross. Twelve Electric Chairs (1964-5) are printed over bright hues - orange, pink, jade. Each chair is alone in the room. A sign reads "silence." Like film stars and car-crash victims, these death instruments are observed coldly, as if by an all-seeing deity, says De Salvo: "Nothing is hidden, there is no privacy...
...President Chen Shui-bian wants to treat foreign dignitaries to authentic local dishes, he brings them to this charming place?the Lian Hsin Yuan Vegetarian Restaurant on Hsinsheng North Road; call (886-2) 2560-1950 for reservations. Xiao Gugu orders a flurry of dishes. First out is xueyu (snow jade) doufu, a two-tone brick of bean curd, green on top, white on the bottom. The top "jade" layer gets its color from a soak in a spinach marinade. We share hefeng (gentle wind) salad?a cold plate made up of star fruit, dragon fruit, octopus, asparagus and spinach drizzled...