  I explore the hypothesis that many of the unusual aspects of the apparent
stellar bar of the Large Magellanic Cloud are the result of viewing a triaxial
stellar bulge that is embedded in a highly obscuring thin disk. Specifically,
this hypothesis explains the observed off-center position of the bar within the
disk, the differing apparent distances of the bar and disk, the near alignment
of the bar's major axis position angle and the disk's line-of-nodes, and the
asymmetric appearance of the bar itself. Indirectly, it may also play a role in
explaining the microlensing rate toward the LMC and the recently observed large
velocity dispersion of RR Lyrae stars.
