Word: bazaar
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...People-to-People Fiesta is a miniature world's fair in itself-a bazaar with booths of more than 40 nations. Here foot-weary fairgoers can picnic, entertained by strolling musicians, craft demonstrations, and a peppy, swinging ballet about Manhattan staged by youngsters of the Police Athletic League...
...genitals in public before prayers." He ponders four sweepers whose ritual effort only makes a hotel staircase dirtier than before "They are not required to clean. That is a subsidiary part of their function, which is to be sweepers, degraded beings." In Gorakhpur his critical gaze falls on the bazaar: "The sweetshops are required to have glass cases; the cases accordingly stand, quite empty, next to the heaps of exposed sweets." Naipaul's candid view of India is attenuated, unfortunately, by a slightly patronizing air. The squalid, unpleasant truths are trotted out for their shock value, and he never...
...Delhi, Jackie Kennedy, 35, stayed with Indira Gandhi, 47, daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru. Now it was Jackie's turn to welcome Mrs. Gandhi. In Manhattan's boxed-glass Union Carbide Building, they inaugurated a photographic government exhibit, "Nehru, His Life and Times," before a black-tie bazaar of 1,700 notables, including the U.N. Secretary-General, U.S. Vice President, New York Governor, both New York Senators, and five former ambassadors to India...
...store through a new era of change and crisis in retailing. The rise of discounters, the flight of customers to suburbia and the thickening traffic snarls have hurt all downtown stores, but they particularly challenged Macy's aging Herald Square store. The store was never the fanciest bazaar in Manhattan, and it has also become outmoded: less than 50% of its area can be devoted to selling space v. 75% in newer stores. Its sales, while huge, have barely changed in ten years. The store rings up a quarter of the Macy chain's total business, which last...
...over a decade, Photographer Richard Avedon's elegant, epicene high-fashion pictures have set the slick tone for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Now it turns out that all along Avedon has been disgusted by the affluent America he celebrates. To register his revulsion, he got together with James Baldwin (who was his old classmate in The Bronx's prestigious De Witt Clinton High School) to plan a work that would "expose the corruption in American life. I am fascinated by decadent faces." Baldwin's brief text is oddly irrelevant, obviously hasty, too often drawn...