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Note to Madonna, Britney, J. Lo and all blondishly tressed, rump-wiggling, belly-baring singer- dancers: give it up. You are pale imitations. CHARO is back! And better than ever, especially now that stretch fabrics have been mainstreamed. The campy sensation of '70s and early '80s TV is both star and co-producer of Bravo, her own show in Las Vegas, featuring flamenco, merengue, salsa and plenty of clean "cuchi-cuchi" for the entire family. Asked if she was sick of her signature phrase, she burbled, "Are you kidding? Cuchi-cuchi has shown me the way to the bank...
...This year's trendy color for burkas is a pale sky blue," reports TIME's Tim McGirk from Afghanistan. This week on TIME.com McGirk writes about Afghan women, their complicated relationship to their signature head-to-toe garment and how their lives are changing: time.com/mcgirk...
...hour hotel shaped like a fairy-tale castle. The last train to Yokohama, where her parents live, has long departed. The 17-year-old is wearing black fishnets under short shorts, her long legs tucked into incongruous combat boots. Harumi lights up a cigarette. With her pale skin, bad teeth and stringy hair, she suddenly appears much older. "Right now I don't have a lot of money," she says. "So I'm waiting for this guy I met. He said he'd get me work, introduce me to a store." Is it prostitution? She shifts her eyes away...
...banish the lingering Cambridge chill and to help pass the 30-minute wait for a table, we immediately hit up the bar for some exotic drinks. The friendly bartender happily directed us to the house specialties from the extensive drink menu, which heavily featured rum. We opted for a pale purple blended concoction coined “Jamaican Voodoo” and a less-flashy rum punch. Both were satisfyingly sweet...
...hard to believe that women who are hidden under a burqa retain a sense of style, but they do. This year's trendy color for burqas is a pale sky blue. A few years back it was a coppery brown. The fashion center for burqas -the Paris, if you will, of Afghanistan - is Herat. Afghan women rave about the delicacy of its embroidery, the exquisite pleating which gives the burqa a shimmering, watery feel but which takes hours to iron...