Word: bazaar
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Entering the first rotary intersection in the bazaar district, however, we saw a frightening sight. Looting had broken out during the mid-morning and the soldiers, aided by normal police forces, were firing at and beating looters in the street. On the opposite side of the intersection a hatless soldier was casually aiming his rifle, not at a looter, but at a family of Indians watching the scene from a fourth-story apartment nearby. The bullet smashed over their heads. The soldier laughed, turned back down the street and shouldered his weapon...
Cosmetic-conscious women have dutifully painted their lips vermilion one season, chalk white the next, applied pancake, powder and rouge with abandon (when Vogue endorsed The Ruddy Look), cut down on foundation bases (when Harper's Bazaar approved of Naked Cheeks). Hair styles have changed so often during the past ten years that even the beauty business began to grow bored with it all, threw in the sponge and recommended wigs. But that was last year's news. This year the eyes have...
...languages, pelting him with cologne-scented water from the Jordan-but the tough legionnaires treated it like an Israeli attack force. Swinging rifle butts and even olive branches snatched from waiting children, the soldiers tried to clear a path so the Pope could walk in prayer along the shabby, bazaar-littered Via Dolorosa, venerated as the street along which Jesus carried his cross to Calvary. The Pope twice stopped to meditate briefly at a station of the Cross and once slipped inside a convent for 25 minutes of rest and prayer, while outside, his security guards attempted to control...
...realm of fashion, Vogue remains unsurpassed. As a "provider of discontent" (the Times reviewer again), Vogue features the slightly unattainable fashions, but its choices are still credible, unlike rival Harper's Bazaar, which is really too far out, and serves mainly to index the absurd and the extreme...
Merchants in Cairo's sprawling Khan-el-Khalilee bazaar selected the winner of their Best Customer of the Year award: former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, 50, who visited Egypt in June. "He did not bargain," explained Shopkeeper Ali Farag. "He seemed concerned with the appearance of things, he was not interested in the materials of which they were made." Nixon's reward: an inscribed silver tray. Back home in Manhattan, the puzzled winner recalled only that he did "lots of handshaking" at the bazaar. "Mrs. Nixon and the girls did most of the buying...