Word: bazaar
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...bullets in his efforts to regain Sinai and the Gaza Strip from Israel. He succeeded only in accumulating 20,000 casualties in his fruitless "war of attrition," and was more than glad to negotiate a ceasefire. Sadat, with a calm and moderate approach and the subtlety of a bazaar merchant, has managed in four months to put Israel on the diplomatic defensive. First, in a major shift in Arab policy, he announced his willingness to recognize Israel's right to exist in return for the restoration of captured territory. Next, he offered a kind of mini-peace on the issue...
...SAYS you can't take yourself seriously in bellbottoms? Not Baron Wolman, hip-type photographer-entrepreneur, Mary Peacock, 27-year-old refugee from Harper's Bazaar, or Blaire Sabol, fashion columnist for the Village Voice. Man, bellbottoms are about as serious as anything else the counter-culture has dreamt up. Which is also to say that they aren't very serious at all. Or at least not worth serious attention. Which isn't, of course, to say no attention...
...While it's easy enough to say what Rags isn't-it isn't Vogue or Harper's Bazaar or Gentleman's Quarterly or the fashion pages of Esquire or Mr. Cavett's wardrobe furnished by J. Press or Joan Kennedy showing up at a White House reception in a tie-dyed leather gauche after threatening for a week to appear in hot pants-it's somewhat more difficult to say exactly what it is. As Rags describes itself...
...Phyllis Whitney is just back from Norway with practical advice about scouting locales: "Islands are easy. You do your homework before going and get introductions from people like librarians when you arrive. Cities are harder. In Istanbul, I solved the problem by concentrating on just one mosque, one covered bazaar, one small town up the Bosphorus...
...Apartheid. The working class has been uneasiest of all, and since 1965 it has responded with rising passion to Tory M.P. Enoch Powell's vision of rivers "foaming with much blood" and of an England transformed by hordes of "grinning pickaninnies" into a vast Asian or African bazaar. "The explosion which will blow us asunder is there," cried Powell, "and the fuse is burning...