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VARANASI With a 2,000-year history as a pilgrimage destination, Varanasi doesn't lack for places to stay. But the stylish Hotel Ganges View, located at Assi Ghat, is in a class of its own. Only recently converted from a private residence, the 100-year-old guest house retains a convivial charm. Each of the 13 rooms is individually decorated with antique furniture. The roof terrace is ideal for watching the sun rising and setting over the river. Doubles start at $16. Call (91-542) 313-218 for reservations and ask for room nine, complete with frescoed ceiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Deals | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

...ostracized in a less modern society. Today he has a show on the Discovery Channel. Jerry Springer has made a fortune exploiting and exhibiting the perversity of others. And professional wrestlers pay their way by stripping down to their skin-tight undies and stringing together the words ismackdowni, icandy-assi and isuck iti into barely intelligible phrases...

Author: By Gustavo M. Gonzalez, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Shameless Exploitation or Capitalist Initiative? | 2/24/2000 | See Source »

...eighteen muthah-fuckahs" and "I'm gonna kill yoah ass" and all that. Which is perfectly valid, and thef're absolutely right in what they're writing about. But Genet has gone one step behind, after the auger, when a man no longer says "I'm gonna kill yoah assi" He can sit back and say "I'm going to kill you." And smile, and smile, and be a villain, as the man said. An it's much more frightening. In 1961, when we did it in New York, anger and hatred were the same thing, and that play erupted...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Golden, | Title: Genet's The Blacks: A Director's Viewpoint | 2/5/1970 | See Source »

...Assi ille debe haber sparniate un mille per anno...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: Interlingua: A Universal Language? | 12/3/1955 | See Source »

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