Word: orientale
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Working as an associate at the Wall Street law firm of Bass and Marshall is a curious sort of servitude. The associates are liveried in Brooks Brothers suits, their glass-box sweatshop has Oriental rugs, and the minimum wage is $27,000 a year. If they slave night and day...
Not that Viet Nam has come off much better. Hanoi's expansion into Laos and its invasion of Cambodia did much to demolish Viet Nam's widespread image in the Third World as a brave anticolonial underdog and show it up more as an Oriental 20th century Sparta intent on...
The Khomeini men soon began to escort the American hostages out of the embassy. Several emerged, guarding an obviously frightened Oriental employee. Some young men and women ran toward the captive and tried to grab him and beat him, but the rescuers lowered their guns and ordered people to leave...
Latest on the hit parade of new food items is "tofu." You have undoubtedly seen it and wondered what it was on the salad bar. Tofu bears a striking resemblance to white bouillon cubes; in actuality, said Raven, it is ancient Oriental dish, high in protein, made from soybean curd...
Once aptly described as "art to walk on," Oriental (or as some prefer, Islamic) rugs and carpets are enjoying a resurgence of popularity in the West. Indeed, the finer examples from Iran, Turkey and the Caucasus have become too valuable to walk on. The prices for some exceptional antique rugs...