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...After 20 days on the stuff (for research purposes, you understand), it becomes clear that tongba has varying degrees of smoothness akin to single malt or blended whiskies. Sampling it from village to village has the feel of a tour of Scottish distilleries. Maoist rebels may have enforced restrictions and even bans on drink in areas under their control, but many households still have a wee dram ready for a friendly foreigner with a few words of Nepali. Tongba's heartwarming kick is especially welcome during the winter, which incidentally is the best time for visiting the country: fewer tourists...
...ultimate appeal of Scott Herren’s music is how he always gets things wrong. Not purposely irreverent or consciously malfunctioning, his work simply sounds half-executed with an air of open experimentation. Under his Prefuse 73 alias, he chops Hip-Hop beats in a manner more akin to Mille Plateaux glitch artists like Farben and Vladislav Delay than to DJ Premier. But in doing so, he cuts off their potential to groove, making his compositions as involuted and intricate as the best of Warp’s back catalogue...
...body is flawed,” she said, pointing to a passage in her sister’s memoir, “Appetites: Why Women Want,” which describes the author’s reaction to a post-pregnancy Elle Macpherson on a Shape magazine cover as akin to “goddess worship...
...centerpiece of the Dartmouth youth movement is freshman phenom Elise Morrison, the precocious 6’3 post player with an athletic lineage akin to the political lineage of the Kennedys or the substance-abuse pedigree of the Baldwins...
...result of this treatment, he says, is zebrafish with eyes that look akin to fluorescent green nightvision goggles...