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...patrolman rolled down his window, shook the man's hand, and began to converse heatedly with him, long after the light ahead of him had changed. Middle-Eastern music blared from "A Nubian Notion," an import variety store across the street. Other drivers behind him began honking their horns, and so the officer moved...
Mercury writes most of the songs and sets the outrageously sexual onstage style. That includes not only his lyrics but also the tight, satiny gear. "I'm thinking of being carried onstage by Nubian slaves and being fanned by them," Mercury tells interviewers. "In fact, I'm holding auditions now-but where to find a slave?" Parents groan, kids applaud, a new rock superact is born...
...about 200,000 inhabitants or less, I can cull couples and triples of Central Square cafes with blacked out windows and steel doors bearing discreet Budweiser placards, or upper stories rented by optometrists, orthodontists and somebody named Arthur Savage, Tax Acct. Not even the neon camel propped above A Nubian Notion is unique; it glows in Roxbury...
...graduated sizes of building blocks stacked one on the other and painted in chalky blue and white stripes after the Greek national colors--the place looked as though it might have been built for a carnival. Recordings of reggae and soul music clatter from the threshold of A Nubian Notion, but the sound is all right for someone strolling past to shuffle around...
Hassan Fathy is an Egyptian architect whose life was completely changed in one moment of revelation. It happened when he visited the unspoiled Nubian village of Gharb Aswan on the Upper Nile. What he saw there, he later wrote, was "a way of building that was a natural growth in the landscape, as much a part of it as the palm tree." Sight led to insight. Fathy recognized that traditional architecture, unlike modern industrial architecture, is compatible with "God's environment" of nature, climate and materials. He never looked back...