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It is, even if it's different from Roald Dahl's children's story about a fox clever enough to outwit three mean farmers named Boggis, Bunce and Bean, one fat, one short, one lean (no one can say that just once). Dahl's spirit is there, but the cinematic...
I admit it. The glasses were entirely fake. I have 20/20 vision. But for several weeks, I wore those lenses almost every day. And I wore them with pride. Having the glasses encouraged me to go to Lamont to do work, as though I simply belonged there now that I...
The plot is somewhat soapy, with poor Rob clearly sexually frustrated – fossilized rhinoceros penis and two beetles copulating for a thousand years in copal? – must’ve had a tough year in Kenya. But what captured FlyBy’s eyes was Mel...
Such self-consciousness is on clearest display in Lévi-Strauss’ lovely travelogue-cum-memoir Tristes Tropiques. Indeed, Lévi-Strauss’ own work can be divided into two categories: Tristes Tropiques, and everything else. Cherished as a formative influence by many established anthropologists, the...
The women also have a deep-seated distrust of the government. Prostitutes complain that they are routinely shaken down by police, who demand $50 payoffs and threaten to lock them up overnight if they don't pay. Several prostitutes were suspicious that the new circuit was part of a government...