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Dunia, a land of "palms and sweat and hot sauces" and stilt river villages, is clearly modeled after 1950s oil-rich, Anglophile Brunei. In Devil of a State a half-deaf U.N. adviser lives in the Residency, a version of the Bubungan Dua Belas, where British residents and high commissioners in Brunei lived until Brunei achieved full independence in 1984. Some streets in Bandar Seri Begawan retain their colonial names (Pretty, Stoney, McArthur), while the wooden House of Twelve Roofs is now a museum hung with photographs feting Brunei's "special relationship" with Britain. It helps to explain...
...Composer [Paul Rivera] will perform with us on stilts, singing and playing guitar, along with a chamber ensemble of Harvard student musicians. Harvard alum[na] and aerial silk artist Marin Orlosky will be suspended eight feet in the air as dancers, a stilt-walker, and musicians perform on the stage below her,” Walker elaborates...
...that purpose. Then we hit a creek, and followed it down about 500 meters through holly, oak and cedar forest. The creek bed was solid rock in places, smoothed by water into a taffy ribbon of undulating striped granite. We passed stone houses tucked into the riverine curves, their stilt-supported balconies jutting into the void. We glimpsed flashes of bright pink as the women ducked into doorways when we passed...
...Deco Weekend festival, and this year's theme is Argentina. Tango dancers will demonstrate their skills on stage on Ocean Drive, and there will be Argentine-wine tastings and screenings of films from the country. The Jan. 16-18 celebration kicks off with the Art Deco parade, complete with stilt walkers, giant puppets and unicyclists. Ocean Drive, between Fifth Street and 15th Street...
...says Club treasurer Isaac S. Shivvers ’10. “It was late, late at night,” he adds. Skinner, the Club’s president, was recently in the Adams House courtyard, decked out with a costume of colorful pajamas and stilts, and accompanied by Shivvers in street clothes, juggling implements in hand, to celebrate the beknighting of Corey M. Rennell ’07-’08 to the Principality of Sealand, a micronation off the coast of England. They did not attend the fancy dress festivities on Club duty, but were...