Word: palanquins
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Standing before Mukesh Mehta’s household adornments (in Montana, mind you, on the cusp of 2006), I gesture to the telltale gold-fringed palanquin and the turbaned figure of the emperor. I note how he is enveloped by a halo. A Mughal durbar, I tell Mukesh. Maybe Jahangir. Perhaps Akbar. But certainly not Aurangzeb—he didn’t go for this artsy-fartsy stuff...
...exhibition, you come across a monumental, eight-panel ink-and-color screen, Scenes of Yangban Life. Painted in the late 18th century by one of Korea's best-loved artists, Kim Hong-do, it is a marvelous genre work complete with a fat lord being carried on a palanquin, peasants working in fields (one stout woman nonchalantly adjusting the back of her skirt), as well as gentlemen and ladies playing musical instruments, while the smokers, including a woman, stay outside the garden gate...
...nearly $7 million a year. Heck, we'd chat with a totally with-it babe like Angie Dickinson for free Losers QUEEN ELIZABETH II Her Majesty may sacrifice her royal train to cut costs. She'll give up the train, maybe even the stage coach, but never, ever, the palanquin ADAM ANT '80s rocker sent to the shrinks for waving a gun at a London pub. He used to do that in feathers and makeup and called it a "video" MEL LASTMAN Toronto mayor in trouble after shaking hands with a Hell's Angel. He says he'd been hanging...