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...Harry Potter movies are filmed primarily at a former airplane factory 20 miles outside London. Inside Leavesden Studios, as it's called, is a dreamlike mishmash of Harry Potter's past: bits and pieces of the Whomping Willow, signs from the stores in Diagon Alley, the smashed-up remains of giant chess pieces from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Honestly, is this any place to raise a child...
...s/Starbucks corner combines an aromatic casserole of malty hops, stewed carnitas, and explosive, espresso-induced diarrhea. Walking into this invisible wall of stench can be sort of like being hit in the face with fossilized Brontosaurus shit. Another “trouble spot” is the alley behind the Kong, whose stench makes a taco fart feel like a warm summer breeze. (On a side note, has anyone else noticed that deuces rotate counter-clockwise at the Kong? It really is another world in there.) The rocks outside the Science Center also smell inexplicably bad, as if they were...
Downstairs, in a luxurious video screening room, Jeff leaves us to ourselves to watch an introductory film on Scientology. The film has a B-movie sheen. Women in suits with shoulder pads talk to men whose hair looks shellacked while a cheesy soundtrack plays in the background. Kirstie Alley, John Travolta, and a number of doctors, police officers, and businesspeople deliver testimonials on how Scientology has improved their lives. The religion has given them a template for self-control and success...
...were fighting against lynching and castration. Now, they don’t have to do it to us. They can just sit back, open the newspaper, and watch us do it to ourselves,” Perkins said. Himself, he was spending nights in an alley under an insurance building a few blocks away and days giving tours, which made him enough money to get by. Matt and Andrew exchanged another look...
...Master of Malgudi Thank you for "the fountainhead" [Aug. 15-22], about novelist R.K. Narayan, who vividly brought to life the make-believe South Indian town of Malgudi through detailed descriptions of every street, alley, shop and office. [The fictional town is the setting for almost all of Narayan's stories.] One of India's most subtly humorous writers, Narayan delighted in exploring the lives of ordinary Indians of all ages. A literary great, he is still alive in the hearts of many people around the world! Suresh Kumar Parappurath Bangalore, India...