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...plans. Backpacking through China, she grew enamored of Tibet. After studying its language for a year, she spent six months on the plateau in 1998 and later produced an exhibition of her work featuring Polaroids of Chinese and Tibetans next to their overlapping handprints. Since then, travel to the Roof of the World has become as common for artists as a paint-spattered studio, and many galleries peddle their renderings of noble Tibetan rustics. "Chinese who go to Tibet can't help but see it as foreign," Li says...
...thin Chinese singer, became her country's pop diva when she incorporated the Tibetan word for moon into her stage name, re-emerged as Dadawa and filled her repertoire with songs like Ballad of Lhasa. Her latest music video, shown repeatedly on Chinese television, depicts her high on the roof of the world wearing Tibetan robes, herding yaks and clowning with nomads. Her first performance in the capital two weeks ago packed Beijing's exhibition center with young Chinese who could afford to spend $50 for a ticket?and one apprehensive Tibetan lama with a shaved head who was anticipating...
...AMERICAN CELEBRATION General Motors throws a cocktail party for new chief of staff Andrew Card, former top D.C. lobbyist for the automaker. Herbie Hancock plays. Kennedy Center Roof Terrace...
...than be bombed, but there we were at U.S. headquarters in Dahran and the air raid sirens were going off as the allied air strikes against Iraqi positions began. Everybody was getting into the elevators and going down into the shelters; I got into one going up onto the roof to be able to watch. I'd been in Philadelphia before that covering the crack wars, and this felt safe by comparison...
...R.E.M. in one plastic partitioned area, giving an interview to who knows whom. Beyond the cubicle area is a grid filled with weight-lifting equipment and another grid filled with stationary exercise bikes; there are also about a dozen (seemingly) fake palm trees and a few "Survivor"-esque thatched roof huts where bartenders are serving mixed drinks. All for the pleasure of the sequestered rock stars. The whole huge building is actually much scarier and creepier than Area 54. At least the things supposedly stored there are from outer space...