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...took precautions. I wrapped a scarf tightly around my head to hide my blond hair, and thought about buying a pair of brown contact lenses next time I return to the U.S. Balazs Gardi, TIME's photographer, traded his polar fleece and khakis for a shalwar kameez, the loose tunic and baggy trousers worn by Afghan men. Suicide bombers here often seek targets of opportunity, so we didn't want to draw any attention to ourselves...
...friends coming together to talk about their new lives. Nonetheless, the feeling in the theater was not one of age, but of youth.At age 52, Jones herself was a display of youthful energy. She entered the stage to a very warm welcome, wearing a long, flowing white tunic and sparkling, tie-up sandals. Her long, blond, slightly disheveled hair gave the impression that she should be singing on a bright summer day and not shut in on a winter night. At first, her music gave a similar impression.Jones began her concert alone at the piano with some of her older...
...shit,” and many truculent Steelers fans made threats on her life. The whole time this was happening, however, Sienna was wearing Mod dresses and even she, normally a very attractive woman, looked awful, which leads me to the conclusion that not only are these shift-like tunic things extremely hard to wear, but they also, much like cursed mah jongg tiles, bring bad luck on all aspects of one’s life. Wear them with opaque tights and approach them with caution.Large Sleeves:I inevitably associate large puffy sleeves with this one production of Silas Marner...
Sitting cross-legged on pillows that they had brought from their hotel rooms, the crowd of 700 neatly dressed middle-aged and middle-class couples were mesmerized by the tall, slender, blond woman in front of them. Dressed in a starched white Oriental tunic over gray sweat pants and sneakers, J.Z. Knight, 40, sat on a makeshift stage in a sturdy armchair surrounded by a veritable garden of lavender flowers. Her voice, almost preternaturally husky, seemed to take on a gamut of accents from European to Indian as she spouted a relentless stream of imperatives about self-reliance...
...jump in and help. After three months reporting on the fall of the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, National Public Radio's Kandahar correspondent, Sarah Chayes, had had enough of watching the broken country stagger to its feet and decided to lend a hand. Donning the turban and long tunic of Kandahari men (the better to escape attention), she plunged into a new life helping the people of her adopted home. The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban is her riveting story...