Nearby, boutique owner Parvin Yonani said she's slashed prices by as much as 85 percent.

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Her arias are models of compact expression, skillfully externalizing the very internal world of the story, particularly Mr. Parvin's distress.

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In the story and the libretto, the Bricklayer is the imaginary visitor of Mr. Parvin, a frail, elderly Iranian who emigrates to Houston with his wife.

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The orchestra included a ney, an end-blown Persian flute, whose breathy timbre in its low register gave an unearthly poignancy to the music of Mr. Parvin and the Bricklayer.

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Those killed included two cousins in New Jersey, ages 2 and 7, who'd huddled with their families in a tent in Parvin State Park when strong winds felled a pine tree, crushing them.

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Phillips, 30, who is 13th in line to the throne but does not use a royal title, married Tindall, 32, in an ivory silk faille and silk duchess satin gown designed by Stewart Parvin.

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The first column I wrote for FORBES was about fund managers' being swept out into New York Bay mumbling Computer Technology, Parvin Dohrmann and Four Seasons as their heads bobbed between the floating orange peels.

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