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...candle-snuffers of Afghanistan's Taliban have destroyed, with heavy machine guns and mortars and other explosives, the two magnificent statues of Buddha, 125 feet and 175 feet tall, that have stood for centuries in Bamiyan, an oasis town on the Old Silk Road, in a long valley separating the chain of the Hindu Kush from the Koh-i-baba range...
...When it comes to making an epic action film, Zhang evidently felt: Why have cotton when you can have silk? The unprecedented collection of talent at work on this project reads like an A-to-Z list of the region's most beautiful, bankable and influential. Besides the stellar leads, Hong Kong actor/director Donnie Yen, the high-flying martial artist known for his rhythmic, graceful style, pits his gravity-defying leaps against Li in a scene that will have kung fu fans roaring for more. Working in three languages (Mandarin, Cantonese and English) and vastly different styles, these actors helped...
...February Eleventh is the birthday of its proprietress Ruth Dorsla, a Liberian-born designer whose dreamy specialties include silk embroidery, crochet and hand-dyes in items such as wraps, ponchos, dresses, blouses, dusters and scarves. It's a shop that satisfies the appetites of rock-star aggressives and ethereal earth goddesses equally. Her hand-dyes are known for their exceptional and sometimes startling color combinations, a talent she attributes to "having no color sense." Dorsla explains that unlike in New York, where black is a fashion staple (a code she encountered upon arriving at the Fashion Institute of Technology...
...James NY specializes in clothing for women's sizes 4-14 and girls from infant to size 10. Her women's wear is unique in that it is cut to flatter the feminine, hourglass figure. Using design categories targeted to satisfy the needs of today's multifaceted woman, James' silk evening wear line has "fancy dress" appeal for formal wear, brides, bridesmaids and flower girls. Her wool jersey knits make a classy transition from the office to after work; and stretch velvets work for every day as well as parties and nightclubbing. An elegant emerald green glitter tank dress...
Memory and preservation are familiar themes for Hulsey. Back in her room, the walls are plastered with old painting and silk-screen projects. Some of the most interesting ones play with repeated photographic images, printed one after another in bright, messy hues. Hulsey particularly likes one piece in which she multiplies an old photograph of a woman fishing into a veritable army of women: it strikes her as being both "strong" and "pretty," a paradoxical combination of "warfare" and "leisure." Equally intriguing is a series in which she repeats silkscreens of turn-of-the-century photographs of her great-grandparents...