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...feature film. While studying monuments in rural tribal cemeteries, Rossoukh and his assistant were arrested because villagers found them suspicious. A police officer, while driving the two men back to the station for interrogation, related the folkloric tale of ‘Abde Mamad Lalari, a famous sheep thief and infamous Iranian Don Juan. Rossoukh had thought Lalari to be an entirely fictional character, like Robin Hood. This police officer said differently. “He told me, ‘I arrested him last week,’” Rossoukh said...
...flower petal or insect wing. Some pieces are almost grotesquely large, some tiny and delicate. (The cheapest retails for around $1,000.) Diamond "strings" are twisted into snowflakes or lace fans. There's a (brooch-size) horse's head, a zebra with ostrich plumes and a sinister sheep with sapphire eyes. François Curiel, head of Christie's Europe, which sponsored the show, says the "chicness" of a high-society gathering is now measured in the number of JAR jewels attending, so the 145 collectors who lent their treasures won't be able to go out until the show...
...with a couple of chickens named Dalai and Elvis (which kids chase around), along with cats, tarantulas, fish and birds. Boys play poker in the store's Haunted Shack, which sits atop a Plexiglas surface that exposes a gray rat colony below. Saturday afternoons feature offbeat activities like sheep shearing. Customer Carrie Watson's toddler Isabel loves the Monday story readings and the animals. "I would much rather visit an independent than a large store anyway," says Watson...
...really serious action takes place in the livestock pavilion, where young boys take horses for test rides while men huddle, endlessly debating the value of fat-bottomed sheep. Some unlucky beasts go straight to nearby teahouses to be made into kebabs...
...hinting very strongly that the latest fighting is the final straw. On Friday the tone seems to have calmed a little. Georgia is expecting retaliation, and not just in the Pankisi Gorge. That might be bombed a couple of times, but there's not much there except a few sheep. Instead, the Georgians expect a Russian military operation to break Georgia's grip on the Kodori Valley. Several pieces of Georgia have been nibbled away by Russian-backed separatist insurgencies since Georgia broke from the Soviet Union. The most independently-minded region is Abkhazia, to which the Georgian-held Kodori...