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...Road to Paradise" gala, with its splashes of colors and feminine contours here and there, illustrates how Egyptian women are typically applying a loose interpretation to the Islamic injunction for women to safeguard their chastity and avoid the attentions of men. "I love Allah and I also love to dress up," explains emcee Do'aa Amer, a popular personality on an Arab satellite channel, who took up the veil herself after a pilgrimage to Mecca six years ago. "The veiled woman can be stylish and hip." Adds Amina Shelbaya, whose Lips agency supplied most of the models for the show...
...second term expires in 2008, but makes a comeback in 2012. (The scenario isn't so far-fetched: late last month, Russian State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov suggested it would be constitutionally acceptable for Putin to return to office then.) The novel follows Putin as he presides over a gala honoring the 400th anniversary of the Romanov imperial dynasty, after which, naturally, the Russian Orthodox Church canonizes Lenin as "the guardian of the poor and the weak." Reality is also given an alternate course in Kurkov's 2000 satire of the modern-day Ukrainian Security Service, The Kind Angel...
...processing this directive] What Nouvel is doing with his arms over his head is making a little joke about floating in space, but he looks more as though he were about to take flight. And this week, Nouvel will be doing some high flying indeed. The Guthrie has its gala opening on June 25; just five days before, Nouvel will be at home in Paris for the inauguration of another major work dedicated to what he calls "selective dematerialization." He has taken a prime parcel at the heart of the city, along the Seine at the foot of the Eiffel...
...latecomer to the U.S. After a number of false starts and canceled projects, the Guthrie will be his first completed U.S. commission. (His second, a condo building in New York City, opens later this year.) Although stage productions won't begin until next month, the new Guthrie has its gala opening on June...
While discussing the work done by UNIFEM, a human-rights organization, NICOLE KIDMAN let slip to PEOPLE magazine that country singer KEITH URBAN, her boyfriend and date for the charity's 30th-anniversary gala, was "actually my fiancé." She said, "I wouldn't be bringing my boyfriend." ('Cause that would be tacky.) Urban's publicist later confirmed the betrothal. The affianced, both Aussies and both 38, met in January 2005 at a dinner given by the Australian government but weren't spotted together in public until July. Since then, they've been seen strolling quietly hand in hand...