No attempt was made by armed police to search any of the hundreds of fans who flooded the Mandarin Oriental to meet men they usually adore from afar.
The women's lounge was Persian "with Oriental furnishings," while the men's room sported a "collection of African tribal weapons".
He describes Islam Karimov, the president of the repressive government of Uzbekistan, as "a subtle man in the Oriental tradition".
He had the oriental view that a real man does not allow himself to be conquered by love.
While shaking hands over supper in Oriental, he learned of a man named Robert Hodges, who at 111 is the oldest World War I veteran in the country.
For example, Ms. Sevcik highlights Prague's Rembrandt "Scholar in his Study" and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam's Rembrandt "Bust of a Man in an Oriental Costume," which feature the same sitter in different roles and varied expressions.
On the far shore panicked little naked women climb out of the sea, as a man in an Oriental costume runs to the water's edge, throwing up his arms in desperate alarm.
In a packed courtroom covered with flowery oriental carpets, two smiling young men told a judge today that they had decided to shoot one of the country's leading reformers because they believed that he was corrupt and an enemy of Islam.
His mansion, in Greek revival splendor, is some 40,000 square feet (including the 17-car garage), surrounded by acres of formal French, Italian and Oriental gardens, a three-acre man-made lake, a conservatory, an amphitheater and a wedding chapel.
Having timbered over their Fifth Avenue store front the night before the big parade, and having dug themselves in behind mountains of authentic Oriental carpets, they then deputized a man to put up a sign across the barricades outside, saying heartily.
