Word: saris
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million people, who had heard about the visit from radios, newspapers and village criers. In bullock carts, buses and trucks (supplied by the government and private businesses), on bicycles, and on foot, they came in one deafening torrent-ragged peasants, neat little babus (civil servants), fierce-looking Sikhs, lovely sari-clad women-jamming through the streets, shouting, cheering...
...Southern Ocean, looked desperately for a way out of the rain of repressive laws. Some turned to Red China and some to the Nationalist stronghold on Formosa, but all felt that their existence was at stake. The matter was hotly argued last week in Manila's tiny sari-sari shops by the flickering light of kerosene lamps, in Bangkok's "thieves' market," where peddlers cautiously hawk rare Siamese antiques, in Singapore's Tanjong Rhu, the "millionaires' club," where wealthy Chinese dine on shark's fins and suckling pigs while outside stand...
...bride, according to Moslem custom, waited in another room during the wedding ceremony, attired in a rose-pink silk sari heavy with gems and gold embroidery, and wearing a pearl necklace and earrings. She had been bathed in rose water, massaged with scented sandalwood oil, perfumed with attar of roses; her nails, the palms of her hands and the soles of her feet were stained with henna...
Rossini: Le Comte Ory (Sari Barabas, Cora Canne-Meijer, Juan Oncina, Michel Roux; the Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Vittorio Gui; Angel, 2 LPs). "A collection of diverse beauties," said Berlioz of Rossini's next-to-last opera, "which would make the fortune not of one but of two or three operas." The melodic beauties are there in full measure, as this first recording of Le Comte demonstrates, but linked together they constitute not three operas but a splintered fragment of one. The work has some rich ensemble climaxes and some rippling solo parts, but after...
...lack of success. When the state of Bengal tried to shut down brothels after World War II, it merely found itself confronted with a sudden rash of "Bath and Massage Clinics." Now much the same story seemed to take place again. Outside New Delhi's Parliament building 75 sari-clad young women protested to M.P.s, in a classic argument used by shady ladies everywhere, that to close red-light districts would be to make respectable women prey to "sex-starved people like bachelors, widowers and the like...