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...many shades of pink. There are ruffled pink pillows, a pink bedspread, and pictures of friends in pink floral frames. On top of her bookshelf, above the books for her freshman seminar, “War in American Society,” is a purse-shaped lamp and a plastic tiara. There’s a pink trash can in the corner and a sequin-studded sign reading “Princess” on the wall. She leaves her combat boots outside the door next to her pack, which is stuffed with a sleeping bag, rations, bulletproof Kevlar helmet...
...we’re proud that we stand together.So on March 17 I put up with the fools who get drunk on green beer and shout “Kiss me, I’m Irish!” I can put up with the leprechaun costumes and green plastic baubles that miss the point entirely. And when I see someone wearing a green bowler with glittering plastic clovers, I remember my grandfather’s simple grey hat with fresh shamrocks in the hatband. Because it isn’t about the parade, it isn’t about...
...album’s bad—it’s more just uninteresting. There are a couple of keepers here—both parts of “Kyberneticka Babicka,” for example, are fun, up-tempo odes to multi-track layering. “Plastic Mile” has an appealingly vintage funk-rock beat under a schizophrenic self-duet from lead singer Laetitia Sadier, and “Whisper Pitch” is a more-successful-than-usual foray into psychedelic syncopation that morphs into a pretty ballad. In these songs, though, are just about...
HARI RAM SON, MOHAND CHAND & SONS, GOVIND GEMS, NP JAIN, RM BUMB read the signs on the shop stalls. Pitliya Jewellers has a table with a plastic washbasin filled with pearls. Jain families?members of an ascetic religious group that observes strict dietary rules?run the businesses; Muslims are the expert craftsmen. Later I notice a poster of Mecca in a workshop where four men facet lemon quartz in a weird green glow. Gauri Shankar Dangayach, production manager of one of Gem Palace's cutting units, leads De Taillac down several side streets with open gutters and into...
...much more orderly than anything in Jaipur. On the ninth floor of the Panchratna tower, dealer Sunil Sethi of SK Exports flicks princess-cut and round-cut diamonds with tweezers without looking up. Every day he sees samples from about 35 brokers, who carry the stones in flat plastic boxes tucked into special cotton undervests...