Word: lanterne
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Keating's mad scene is less frantic and more funny than any of the shouting, jumping fits the other characters lapse into. Murray has him carry a birdcage around as a mocking of Diogenes' lantern. Its mere presence is a marvelous touch. Murray, in one of those decisions which saves this production, doesn't have him constantly swing it around...
...school has a puppetry department, and the performances never fail to draw crowds of willing listeners. Then the teacher is ready to begin. Paid between $4 and $13 a month depending on his duties, he usually works by day under a porch awning or in the evening by lantern light. He teaches by phonetic method, drawing the flowery Hindi characters on a blackboard and showing how they are combined into words. When the course is over, Mrs. Fisher's library workers will pedal into town on bicycles, ringing bells and advertising books for lending...
Fados, the bittersweet songs of Portugal, are like rare vintage wines: they don't travel well. They are best savored in the small lantern-lit taverns tucked away in the cobblestone alleys of old Lisbon. There, in an atmosphere drenched with pathos and the aroma of musky wine and spicy sausages, the black-draped fadistas cry out in voices quavering with anguish. Against a back ground of weeping guitars, they sing of sin and love gone wrong, of wasted lives and impending doom. Fado means destiny, and its baleful laments are more than the fatalistic Portuguese can bear...
...Chandigarh, which rises from the sere plains of the northwest in concrete convolutions designed by the famed French architect Le Corbusier. Homemade ghee (clarified butter), which villagers not long ago insisted was the only nourishing cooking medium, is giving way to sealed tins of vegetable oil; kerosene-burning hurricane lanterns are supplanting the traditional Aladdin-like mud diva in peasant huts, and well-to-do farmers often buy a second lantern to hang outside as a sign of affluence. Though most villagers still prefer cooking fires of cow dung, some huts now boast $2 oil stoves. Rural electrification is also...
Japanese diplomats throw lavish, lantern-lit parties, make it a point to show up at all independence celebrations of emerging nations. Their sales have also benefited from the unexpected: Japan's National brand TV sets became an immediate bestseller in Nigeria largely because the name inspired patriotic fervor and many people thought that the sets must be a local product. "I never argue with them," says Mutsuhi Furuya, representative of the Japan External Trade Organization in Nigeria...