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...onestly, even if you took my chair (armless) you can have the arms -- I was gonna sell it for $5 anyway," he wrote...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer | Title: Finders Keepers | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...real.The first week you spend in this former marshland, which was transformed into a financial capital seemingly overnight, can only be described as a sustained shock. This has nothing to do with the pregnant mother trying to sell you Japanese bondage porn (illegal in China) or the two armless men who like to circle a block known for its expat bars. The shock comes from everything appearing Western and yet being just different enough to always keep you on your toes. And so, for fear of becoming a sleazy expat who takes everything at face value, I have held...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Shanghai-tened Reality | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

...real.The first week you spend in this former marshland, which was transformed into a financial capital seemingly overnight, can only be described as a sustained shock. This has nothing to do with the pregnant mother trying to sell you Japanese bondage porn (illegal in China) or the two armless men who like to circle a block known for its expat bars. The shock comes from everything appearing Western and yet being just different enough to always keep you on your toes. And so, for fear of becoming a sleazy expat who takes everything at face value, I have held...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shanghai-tened Reality | 8/25/2008 | See Source »

...scholarly insight. But his encyclopedic survey of the forces and events that have connected individuals, societies and cultures is nimbly paced and punctuated by lively anecdotes - of catamarans plying Polynesian seas, of Catholic converts in Mexico bearing icons made in Macau of missionaries martyred in Japan, and of the armless boy in an Indian trade delegation who awed imperial Rome by shooting arrows with his toes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Like the Old Days | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

...vulture and swooping into a nudist camp. We soon backtrack to see Arbus as an Amish-looking housewife attending to her loving and supportive husband, Allan (Ty Burrell). By the end of the film, we’ve been treated to her transformation by way of midgets, an armless maid, and, most of all, a mysterious wholly-covered-with-hair lover-to-be named Lionel (Robert Downey Jr.), who seems ripped from the pages of “Beauty and the Beast.” Sound interesting? It could have been, but instead, we’re given Kidman?...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW: "Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus" | 11/16/2006 | See Source »

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