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CAVIAR PURSE, $100 If you're living the kind of life in which you often eat beluga on the spur of the moment, Dean & Deluca www.deandeluca.com has what it calls Her Caviar Gift. This handwoven silk bag comes with a mother-of-pearl caviar plate built in. We suspect the plate could also be used to hold pigs in a blanket, but that doesn't sound as elegant, does...
...until then it was untouched by Afghanistan's two decades of war. The city takes its name from the Blue Mosque there, where Ali--Muhammad's son-in-law and the fourth Caliph--is said to be buried. Alexander the Great slept in Mazar. Genghis Khan and Silk Road traders passed through. Only 35 miles from Uzbekistan's border, the city was a valuable supply depot for the Soviets, who left it in Dostum's hands...
...spinning degree. Archival footage of outrageous singer-pianist Frances Faye will dissolve into a filmed sequence of desert explorer Sir Wilfred Thesinger, which will morph into a series of still shots from small-town parade, which will change into a picture of a young model wearing a turban and silk shawls. Characters and events tumble by, with nary a clear transition or connection to help us understand where they fall. We cannot make sense of this movie’s methods, just as we can never know what happens in another person’s head...
...order to complete a robbery without resorting to violence. But matters become complicated when his fence, Bergman (Danny DeVito), strong-arms him into taking a risky last job that involves a large amount of Swiss gold bullion. Bergman also forces Moore to let his cocky young nephew, Jimmy Silk (Sam Rockwell), participate in the heist. In order to keep his hopes of prosperous retirement alive, Moore begins a complicated con game in which nobody can be trusted and nothing is certain...
...largest photograph, “A to Z of Taxonomy,” is seven panels long and the most ambiguous piece in the collection. Six of the panels are radiant and colorful photos of silk flowers in a shop, each of which is strong enough to stand alone. The seventh panel shows two women closely analyzing the flowers. These women are ordering the flowers, so the photo can be seen as a metaphor for the human attempt to order life. There are so many flowers, each precious and beautiful, that ordering them seems an impossible task. Is Hilliard sending...