Word: jewellers
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...arrived in Kabul a day earlier than expected, so, to keep me occupied, my interpreter took me to his cousin's wedding party?a women-only affair in a crumbling, Soviet-era housing estate. I was ushered through the apartment door into a heaving jewel box of glitter and gold lam?. About 40 women filled the tiny room, spilling over sofas and sitting in one another's laps. Space for a dance floor had been cleared between sprawling limbs, and a corpulent, velvet-bedecked woman gyrated to a popular Bollywood tune. When she tired, she was replaced by a girl...
...this season, Hartman also suggests sweaters or jackets with oversized stand-up collars and anything in bright colors, particularly jewel tones such as kelly green and rich purple...
...jewel-box city over the Tagus river, Toledo was also a center of the Counter Reformation, which sought to mobilize the faithful and harden the lines of Roman Catholic dogma. In the face of the Protestant challenge, the inquiring spirit of the High Renaissance had been overtaken by the dogmas of the Council of Trent. Eager to exploit the power of art but wary all the same of wayward artists, Rome operated like the old Hays office in Hollywood, mandating what could be shown and how to show it. Spain in particular was a cockpit of militant piety, the forcing...
...second installments on succeeding shows. The first will air this Thursday, the opening half in the season premiere of Will & Grace and the conclusion during the new sitcom Coupling. In the first mini-movie, The Pussycat Dolls, Carmen Elektra plays a dancer who gets involved in a jewel heist. Ten mini-movies are already completed, with stars like Michael Richards and Tom Arnold. The executive producers are Paris Barclay and John Wells, who usually lends his talent to more substantial fare (E.R., The West Wing). "John has thrown his full creative weight behind this," says Mitch Metcalf, NBC's senior...
...Louis is a detail freak who leaves nothing to chance. "I'm not much on management, but I'm a positive nut about marketing," he says. "I'll happily leave management to the individuals who run each place, but marketing is something else again." The Costes empire's crown jewel is the Hôtel Costes, which the brothers bought in the early 1990s from Hilton Group for a reported $25 million, but by the time it opened in 1995, decorator Jacques Garcia had spent so much on leopard-skin prints and ferns that the Costes were rumored...