Word: sarong
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...those days we ate our meat raw, like animals." The speaker is Viktor Jurubu, an Indonesian farmer in his 60s, who, in his T shirt and sarong, looks little like the cavemen he's describing. Except for his height, which is about 140 cm. In the world of anthropology, Jurubu's small size is big news because he and his 246 fellow villagers of Rampasasa on the remote island of Flores say they are descended from a tribe of tiny, hairy folk whom they call "the short people." "We didn't have knives but used rocks," he explains. "We didn...
...know the Zeitgeist is shifting when Nicole Kidman can don a pencil-thin suit from menswear designer du jour Hedi Slimane - or David Beckham can step out in a sarong. "Men are much more receptive to the idea of looking fashionable," says retailer Seper. "There was previously a misunderstanding that if you took an interest in yourself, your masculinity was diminished somehow, whereas now (male grooming) is accepted, in fact it's sought after...
...Gauguin's primary role in the liberation of color in modern art. From his first 1891-93 voyage alone, the show brings together 15 major works now scattered around the world, including Woman With a Mango from Baltimore; the audacious Hail Mary - a Tahitian Madonna in a red sarong with the child astride one shoulder - from New York; Philadelphia's stunning There is the Temple, with its daffodil hillside against a cerulean sky, and others from Copenhagen, Buffalo, Madrid, Moscow, Paris and St. Petersburg. The result is a spellbinding symphony of color that's not likely to be seen again...
...pair arrived in Atlantic City two weeks before pageant night, spending their days making group appearances and putting the finishing touches on their sarong-twirling dance for the telecast, among other activities...
...Throughout the region, once booming businesses catering to long-haul travelers stand empty. Waiters at smart restaurants in Singapore, sarong salesmen in Bali, bar girls in Pattaya?all sit idle, hoping enough customers will straggle in for them to survive another deathly quiet season. Hong Kong is meanwhile gasping for oxygen, enduring its worst slump in leisure travel in anyone's memory. Flights are full only because carriers have cut back heavily on the frequency of service and cancelled many routes altogether...