Word: maharajah
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...craft and libido all worked as one. Diamonds were crushed into pigment; rubies were used for adornment and pounded into aphrodisiacal potions. In such a context, the grandeur of these court clothes seems almost casual. It is impossible to resist the impact of a coat--cut for a maharajah who stood 6 ft. 9 in.--made of silk and interlined, for warmth, with rustling handmade rag paper. All that captures the eye. But what holds the imagination are the shapes, the folds and the colors, the cascades of fabric in a skirt that uses 300 yards of cotton to move...
Apple Computer's new Macintosh will be introduced this week, accompanied by sirens and ceremony fit for a maharajah. TIME San Francisco Correspondent Michael Moritz watched the computer's development while writing a book about Apple that will be published this summer by William Morrow & Co. His report...
...with very old automobiles. Using well-worn wrenches and lots of elbow grease, he and a team of mechanics have restored a collection of nearly two dozen 1930s sports cars. Among them: a Mercedes-Benz Special Roadster, a deep sea-blue Bugatti and a Duesenberg once owned by a maharajah. "They have to run right," he says, "or they're not worth having...
...alibi. Diana hired a brilliant defense lawyer from South Africa. After Broughton was acquitted of the murder, he received a cable from the Earl of Carnarvon and Montgomery (HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS ON WINNING A NECK CLEVERLY), and was invited to recuperate from the trial at the palace of the Maharajah of Jhopur. Still, the smell persisted. Thirty years after the crime, Fox persuaded three people to talk about the murder confessions Broughton had made to them before he took a fatal dose of morphine in 1942, 17 months after his acquittal...
Clues fall like melting snowflakes. An Indian maharajah's purloined jewels, poisoned darts, blood brotherhood, damsels in distress, blood-drenched epistles - you name it: Giovanni uses...