Word: marigolds
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...Jersey enclave of Short Hills, dozens of patrons have packed into the Wentworth Gallery to celebrate an art opening. Glasses of chilled chardonnay are served in the white-walled space as a battalion of gallery assistants respond to customer queries about abstract works in shades of blush and marigold. But make no mistake: this is not your average academic art exhibit. A quick scan of the attendees reveals lots of big hair, tight jeans and hints of rocker-girl décolletage. The sound system throbs with the refrain "Lick it up, lick it up." And perched behind a velvet...
Richard Baker walks into the Time Warner Center in New York City wearing a sporty tan summer suit accented by a marigold tie with yellow socks to match. These days the real estate developer, art collector and former chef is having fun with fashion. As CEO of NRDC Equity Partners?the private-equity firm that bought Lord & Taylor?Baker is the proud new owner since October of America's oldest department store. And he's overseeing a makeover as bold as his brightly colored tie. To prove his dedication to the turnaround, he and his wife have made a pact...
...when Mexicans go to the polls on July 2, few will gripe that this campaign has been too quiet. The front runner, former Mexico City Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, has turned his rallies into carnival-style events, with supporters tossing marigold garlands around his neck and hoisting cages with squawking chachalaca birds that wear his opponents' names. To a raucous throng last week in Puebla, south of Mexico City, López pledged to rid the government of the "arrogant, mediocre, lying thieves who cripple this country!" That got the crowd worked...
...Delhi and an ode to masti, the Punjabi intoxication with life. I wanted to capture my India, a place that has always lived in several centuries at once, an India of cell phones and peacocks, where housewives play the stock market, Cuban cigars are savored and a marigold-eating tent man reinvents himself as an event manager, only to be undone by love. Little did I know then that people from Iceland to Hungary to Southern California would claim the Vermas as their family and our wedding as theirs...
...Delhi and an ode to masti, the Punjabi intoxication with life. I wanted to capture my India, a place that has always lived in several centuries at once, an India of cell phones and peacocks, where housewives play the stock market, Cuban cigars are savored, and a marigold-eating tent-man reinvents himself as an event manager only to be undone by love. Little did I know then that people from Iceland to Hungary to Southern California would claim the Vermas as their family, and our wedding as theirs. Released in 2001, Monsoon Wedding won several awards and is still...