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...still a mocker-a fusion of mod and rocker? -Robert Soares, New York CityWe were always pop. "I'm a mocker"-that was one of the lines in A Hard Day's Night. I'm a popper...
...raves about Devi Garh, an 18th century fort in Rajasthan, a short hop from Udaipur, with 39 suites featuring mod interiors, and gets so excited talking about Ahilya Fort in Maheshwar, in the central state of Madhya Pradesh--a region that Jayasundera feels has been unfairly neglected by tour operators--that he chokes with laughter. "The Indore royal family that owns the small fort were very avant-garde. They had an amazing art collection by the '30s, and they were the first family to build an air-conditioned palace," he says, going on to describe the Labradors that jump...
...next morning to do the actual constructing. She considers using pages from the Style section of the New York Times, but instead opts for old FM issues. One and a half hours later, she has completed the centerpiece of her outfit: a multi-ply newspaper skirt with mod duct tape trim. For a finishing touch, Morton decorates the skirt with FM logos and owls from October 4th issue: “The FM script is like how you label your product, as if it’s a designer signature,” she explains. “Luckily...
...warmonger once spent two nights during his nine-month Elban exile, before escaping to prepare for his last battle. Today, peace lovers can enjoy a relaxing farm holiday in one of the nine peasant cottages among the vines and olive groves. The decor is rustic - simple furniture and no mod cons - but each cottage has a small garden and access to a quiet beach with mesmerizing views of the medieval walled town of Portoferraio. It's also here that John Le Carré set part of his best-selling novel, The Constant Gardener, and in his author's note...
...fellows are male, only six of 50 are pursuing “irrelevant” “gendered” topics, and a fair share of them are studying such “fruitless” unscientific things as “The p-adic and mod p Local Langlands Correspondence,” “Microelectronic circuitry,” “string relations,” base DNA lesions, “Hadron colliders,” and “the physics of granular materials.” What feminist nonsense...