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...favelas of Rio de Janeiro are akin to Algiers' notorious Casbah. Teeming shanty towns, about 200 in number, they spot the city's steep hills, shelter its slippery underworld. The Pépé le Moko of the favelas is a little man (5 ft. 2 in., 105 Ibs.) who says his real name is João da Costa Rezende but who is better known as Carne Séca, or Dried Meat...
...morning abstractions and the other for afternoon commercial jobs. Like any artist, Harari longs to be both independent and popular: "I'd like to be close to people, but you know how the ordinary Joe feels about abstractions. Without being patronizing I'd like to be akin, to express what people are feeling. For example, there were 6,000,000 Jews killed in Europe. I'd like to paint about that but not in a trite, illustrative way. I'd like to paint abstractions that will move people...
Working out in the Briggs Cage is akin to playing tennis on a ping pong table, so Munro has had to schedule heavy practices this week and a scrimmage with the Boston Lacrosse Club for Saturday...
Over the years The Turn of the Screw has become more than a notable ghost story to chill the blood: it has become a kind of highbrow mystery story to challenge the mind. Pre-Freudian but often strikingly akin to Freud, it hints at something sexual in the governess' feeling for the boy, at something homosexual between the boy and the valet. It has been explained, a little too ingeniously, as a pure hallucination of the governess'. But first, last and always, it is a ghost story; and ghosts owe their audiences only an experience, not an explanation...
...provide an interesting commentary on the minds and consciences of the men who fondle the cash receipts from America's "amateur" intercollegiate program. It seems inconceivable that anyone could have expected the members to toss out the seven erring sisters indicted for breaches of the Sanity Code, but something akin to a grasp of surprise greeted the failure of the athletic Pharisees to carry out the proposed hypocrisy...