Word: dreadlocked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fetched as it might first sound. A friend in Karachi - educated, a staunch feminist and usually disparaging of all things religious - invokes a popular ditty every time the game is brought up: "I don't like cricket; I love it," she chants (after the 1978 10cc number "Dreadlock Holiday"). When I interviewed one of the founding members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the militant group suspected of orchestrating November's terrorist attacks on Mumbai, the ice was broken with a discussion of a cricket match. And when I visited a conservative seminary campus in Muridke, near Lahore, I was greeted with...
...tattooed, dreadlock-sporting members of radical agitprop collective Taring Padi despise materialism, and spend their days producing banners and posters urging social reform in their native Indonesia. It would therefore be a delicious irony if their work became collectable - clucked over in galleries by affluent, Shiraz-sipping dilettantes. But stranger things have happened in the world of art, and the group - with around 10 artists at its core - now finds itself enjoying a modicum of celebrity...
...only followed by “I Like What You Say,” the album’s first single, which uses the same acoustic E chord for the entire song. At least this gives bassist Daniel Lorca, who weirdly resembles Kevin Spacey in a dreadlock wig, a lot of room for an interesting bass line. If it weren’t for the broken-record of a chorus, which just repeats “I like what you say” in different orders, this could be a great single. Throughout “Lucky...
...that, ever since I saw Anna Wintour do it at a fashion show, I have wanted to accomplish. THREE TIPS TO ROCK THE SCARF: (1) Proportion, proportion, proportion—pair the scarf with slim, pared-down clothing. You don’t want to look like a uni-dreadlock woman. (2) Don’t wear too short a scarf (see cautionary tale above). (3) Just listen to Corey Hart...
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