Word: lanterns
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...wondered if the restaurant would resemble her name: sassy and high-profile with too much attitude and too little substance. She was certainly attractive, bejeweled in regal hues of deep orange, red and purple. Her style was ethnic exotic with a modern twist, her featured adornments were sultry lantern-like chandeliers draped with folds of white cloth. Lined with gleaming martini and wine glasses, a curvaceous bar swooped and hugged one side. Yet despite the striking and charismatic presence, the bar was bizarrely empty...
Students attached the handmade banner, reading “Where’s the VERITAS in slave labor?” and depicting a crossed-out Nike swoosh, to a lantern and the Coop sign. One member held the sign in place while others gave 100 “Harvard-Nike: Just don’t do it” leaflets to passersby, urging them to call University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...their informed prejudices into words. I can heartily recommend the essays on Bergman, Bresson, Bunuel and other demanding European auteurs in Gregory and Maria Pearse?s Truth-in-Cinema Quest site and the panoramic considerations of themes in Chinese movies on Peter Nepstad?s The Illuminated Lantern. And I?m agreeably flummoxed by the attention ladled onto the 175 films made by Spanish bad-film auteur Jesus Franco. Tim Lucas? overview is almost enough to force me to watch, again and again, those tortured films with gorgeous naked women. Anything for film research...
...glorious house of worship. The walls are gray, austere, adorned with pictures of important and beloved figures. Icons and talismans from faraway lands lie about, recalling passages of days gone by. A Chinese lantern adds a taste of pageantry, while a gentle murmur emanates from an acolyte...
...office. A cubicle, actually. The pictures are mine, as are the figurines, but the walls were like this when I got here. The lantern, that's from a restaurant that was going out of business. And the acolyte is really my computer, which, thanks to a variety of new websites, discussion groups and cyberapostles, is all I need to transform office space into spiritual space. I can explore or practice religion and religions with a few keystrokes. I can "attend" sermons and listen to calls to prayer, seek advice and philosophy. And I don't have to go anywhere...