Word: veils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Princess Aisha herself proceeded to lead a determinedly emancipated life. She rode a horse in Western fashion, astride; her tastes in music leaned toward Benny Goodman rather than the reedy tunes of Araby; she indulged her preference for bikini bathing suits while disdaining the traditional Moslem veil. Her one notable concession to conservative convention was a promise to her father to marry any man he chose for her. ("I have complete confidence in the King. Love will come after marriage...
...getting the better of invention, a kind of bargain Taj Mahal is already infiltrating contemporary architecture as portents of failure." Chief practitioner of this kind of architecture, says Rudofsky, is Edward D. Stone, famed for the neo-Moorish latticework walls he wraps around his buildings: "He throws in a veil of mechanical ornament, a smokescreen of stone, so that you can't see the structure behind...
Veteran Vatican observers noted a few unusual aspects about the initial state visit of Belgium's austere and pious Queen Fabiola, 32. The white gown and veil she wore instead of the accustomed black was easily explained: she had asked Pope John XXIII for the ancient privilege of Roman Catholic queens. The reason for her other departures from the past -forgoing the protocol-prescribed trek up the Noble Staircase in favor of an elevator ride to the second-floor apartment of the Pope, failing to join her husband King Baudouin, 30, for the traditional call on the Vatican Secretary...
...palaces for schools. At King Saud's Sons' Institute, inside the Naziriyah compound, children of slaves sit next to young princes. Risking the displeasure of the austere Wahabi sect of Islam, which believes that woman's place is in the harem and behind the veil, Tariki has put several thousand girls in school...
...earlier works, though his palette was muted, the focus was as sharp as a photograph. Gradually, the brushwork loosened, until it seemed as if a veil had dropped between the artist and reality. His landscapes may be literal, but they are seen as if in a dream (see color), his people, almost always empty-eyed, seem to live in a trance. They are sleepwalkers, whose minds and bodies are a world apart. And for the most part, they are children, usually adolescent girls...