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...noose on hundreds of vindictive placards went into hiding two months ago when her challenge of Scripture prompted legal charges and Muslim fatwas, or religious decrees, calling for her death. Last week, as she emerged from a Toyota sedan into Dhaka's High Court building, a black head scarf and tinted glasses disguised her features. She appeared grim and jittery through a 45-minute hearing that ended with her release on $250 bail. Then she fled home to relatives she had not seen since June 4. By the consensus of literary critics, Nasrin, an outspoken feminist and atheist...
This kind of thing can give newness a bad name, even as we eagerly scarf it up -- in fact, because we eagerly scarf it up. "When a trend went out of style, we used to be forgiving of it and think it was quaint, like pink skirts with poodles and crew cuts with white socks," says Steve Hayden, chairman and CEO of BBDO Los Angeles and creator of the famous Orwellian Apple computer commercial that perked up the 1984 Super Bowl. "Now, we actually hate the last trend. It goes from the top of the chart to nothing...
...appropriate at the same time. Rather than trying to psychoanalyze the pianist, the film seems content to keep the theme of Gould open to interoperation. The film derives much of its humor from the ongoing bewilderment and second-guessing of his friends. Why did Gould insist upon wearing a scarf, hat and gloves throughout the summer? Why did he set the piano bench so low that the played the keyboard at eye level? Why did he keep 42 bottles of ketchup in his hotel room? One hotel chambermaid earnestly explains how all the other maids refused to work...
Jacqueline Onassis was clearly a sane woman. She kept a seemly silence. And for all the fragility she may have suggested in the big, round sunglasses and the head scarf, she wore some inner armoring; she possessed an eerie talent (a strategy of self-protection well known to those who handle dangerous animals) to make herself disappear, to dematerialize. If you saw her on the street, she would seem to abstract herself out of public attention, a kind of elegant vanishing. She would be, as she finally is now . . . elsewhere...
According to the February article, Gates in Paris was "furious" because a French couple mistook him for a taxi driver even though he "was standing in the lobby of [his] chic Latin Quarter hotel, in [his] handmade suit, Burberry coat and Paul Stewart scarf...." Gates was furious apparently because "[t]hose guys just weren't seeing...